Word: croce
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Jim Croce, 30, folk-rock singer who had just hit the big time with his million-selling single, Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown; in a chartered-plane accident in Natchitoches...
...flood damaged only one major work of art beyond repair: Cimabue's Crucifix (Church of Santa Croce...
Taddeo Gaddi: fresco, the Last Supper (Museum of Santa Croce...
Alessandro Allori: Christ Lowered from the Cross (Museum of Santa Croce...
Among works still awaiting restoration are the Sacrifice of Isaac by Allori (Church of San Niccolò Oltrarno), Bronzino's Christ Descending into Limbo (Museum of Santa Croce), and Ghiberti's and Pisano's bronze doors from the Florence Baptistry-which restorers may have to coat with a transparent synthetic resin, now under research in Italy, to protect them from worse damage by air pollution...