Word: marciana
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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...Venice, according to Professor Pasquale Rotondi, head of Italy's national restoration center, the famed bronze horses on the façade of St. Mark's 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...
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