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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...
...must be removed to an atmosphere-controlled room in the Marciana Library, "before the season of lagoon fogs" begins in late fall. Their bronze is now too corroded by pollution to remain outside. The same measures, Rotondi insists, are needed to preserve the so-called Doors of Paradise that Ghiberti made for Florence's Baptistery...
...earlier counts, approximately 885 art works were damaged or ruined. But, according to the report of the Committee to Rescue Italian Art (CRIA), this is only a third of the works actually damaged. There were several major losses. The Baptistery doors, including Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise, were swept off their hinges and smashed against the buildings...
...built in 1345) and inundated the Piazza, della Signoria. Propelling logs and other debris, it piled autos into heaps of smashed steel and left a thick oil slick in its wake. Hundreds of rare manuscripts and books were destroyed in the slime. The water knocked out five panels of Ghiberti's "Doors of Paradise," the famed bronze reliefs on the doors of the Baptistery near the Duomo. It wrecked the priceless 13th century crucifix by Cimabue in the Museum of Santa Croce. In the basements and other galleries of the Uffizi, 1,200 paintings were spattered with...
Perhaps only in the U.S. would someone have conceived of repeating the gates to heaven. Yet, shining in their new cathedral portals, the doors also double Ghiberti's chance to survive, astonish and delight his viewers as freshly as he did in Florence five centuries...