PRESERVING ITALY'S ART TREASURES.
ST. MARK'S OATHEDRAIr WRAPPED IN BAGS OF SEAWEED. LONDON, December 7. One of the strangest chapters in the history' of this war w»s the defeiice of Italy's art treasures against bombardment, said Major Sir F. de Filippi, lecturing at the' British Academy. Italy had been fully alive to the responsibility for the art of which she, was the guardian, and had spared nothing to endeavour to protect her cities and their treasures. The lecturer showed a wonderful series of pictures illustrating . the vast nature of tho work and its ingenious character. In all the Venetian, Lombardian, and even Tuscan towns, one saw whole buildings often "wrapped up." outdoor monuments placed in what the lecturer described as big dogkennels, while, in many cases,, new masonry had ; been built, and water pipes laid in ancient buildings. V Everythin portable — bronzes, pic-
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14516, 30 January 1918, Page 9
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143PRESERVING ITALY'S ART TREASURES. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14516, 30 January 1918, Page 9
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