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...eloquent. Italy contains about 30,000 churches, 60,000 religious edifices, 200 state museums and many more regional and local museums. The number of works of art within them is beyond guessing-most collections remain uncatalogued-but the task of overseeing them falls to the Direzione Generale delle Antichita e Belle Arti, or Fine Arts Administration, an arm of the Ministry of Education that receives a mere 3% of the ministry's budget. The whole artistic heritage of Italy is supervised by 95 archaeologists, 92 art historians, 107 architects and 58 technicians. By comparison, New York's Metropolitan...
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