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Winter 2006/2007

Battle for Battersea

Sir Giles Gilbert Scott’s graceful art-deco Battersea Power Station—famed for its appearance in film and on a 1977 Pink Floyd album cover—defines the River Thames just west of the Houses of Parliament. Passing it on a commuter train from Victoria Station, Europe’s largest brick structure is as...Read more
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United Kingdom
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Battersea Power Station
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Winter 2006/2007

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

It’s hard to imagine a more impressive—or more endangered—cultural landscape in Australia than the Dampier Rock Art Site. The largest, and quite possibly oldest, rock art precinct in the world consists of thousands of jagged red Pilbara rocks which, on closer inspection, reveal in their shadowed...Read more
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Australia
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Dampier Rock Art Complex
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Winter 2006/2007

Rebuilding the Building Arts

Earl Barthé is the Jelly Roll Morton of plaster. Like the legendary jazz pianist, the 84-year-old New Orleans craftsman is a master of improvisation in his medium. In fact, he often describes his highly ornate ceiling medallions and crown moldings in musical terms, such as “arias in plaster.”...Read more
Country: 
United States
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Mount Lebanon Shaker Village
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Winter 2006/2007

The Art of Preservation: Mural Masters

Fresco and mural conservation specialists are a brave, frighteningly knowledgeable, and slightly geeky elite, traveling the world studying painted walls and trying to keep maximum amounts of original pigment adhering. Over the past decade, the arsenal of high-tech tools and chemicals for analysis...Read more
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Buddhist Remains of Bamiyan
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Winter 2006/2007

Visions of Heaven and Hell

The year was 1973 and art historian Pablo Macera had heard from an artisan, Hilario Mendívil, about the existence of extraordinary mural paintings within a suite of churches south of the ancient Inca capital of Cuzco. Following up on the tip, he embarked on a journey to see them first hand. So...Read more
Country: 
Peru
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San Juan Bautista of Huaro Church
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Date: 
August 2007

Traveling Exhibition: Centro Histórico de Lima – Patrimonio Humano y Cultural en Riesgo / The Historic Center of Lima – Human and Cultural Heritage at Risk

World Monuments Fund included Lima Historic Center on the 2008 Watch, and shortly thereafter began working on the Casa de las Columnas, a building and national monument located in the city center. As a result of WMF's continued dedication to Lima's historic center, as well as combining...Read more
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Peru
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Lima Historic Center
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Spring 2007

ICON, Spring 2007

For more than a millennium, the Maya civilization flourished in southern Mexico and Central America, building great cities with extraordinary architecture. Today, vestiges of this ancient civilization are evident in the thousands of archaeological sites that dot the region, testament to the...Read more
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United States
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