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Spring 2005

Bourbon Renewal

Any visit to Naples, Italy, is unforgettable. It is a hectic, frenetic city—thrilling, exhausting, vibrant, delicious, and intriguing. It is also full of architectural surprises, among them the Real Albergo dei Poveri, or Royal Almshouse. The Albergo is a building that stands out, firstly, because...Read more
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Italy
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Real Albergo dei Poveri
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Spring 2005

In Search of Lost Arts

The eighteenth-century emperor Qianlong (r. 1736– 1795), China’s longest-reigning monarch, is among the most illustrious figures in that nation’s history, renowned for his intellectual curiosity, unparalleled connoisseurship, and patronage of the arts. Determined not to out-reign his grandfather,...Read more
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China
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Juanqinzhai in the Qianlong Garden
Qianlong Garden, Forbidden City, Beijing, China
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Winter 2003/2004

Portrait of an Emperor

Perhaps no emperor in all of China’s history was more conscious of his own image than Qianlong. Suitably enough, he loved to have his portrait painted, and scores of those renderings have survived: we can see him as a prince, taking over control of the country from his shrewd and hardnosed father...Read more
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China
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Juanqinzhai in the Qianlong Garden
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Winter 2003/2004

Qianlongs Private World

Aside from the Great Wall, the Forbidden City in Beijing is no doubt China’s most famous landmark. From the thousands of tourists who visit the ancient city each day, it is hard to imagine that the imperial precinct was completely off-limits to the general public until 1925, relatively recently...Read more
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China
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Juanqinzhai in the Qianlong Garden
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Winter 2003/2004

Reversal of Fortune

Even in fragments, the monastery church of St. Francis and Gorton commands our attention. Built in the mid 1860s at the height of Manchester’s industrial prosperity, St. Francis and Gorton was in its day the largest parish church built in England since the time of the Reformation. Yet within a...Read more
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United Kingdom
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Saint Francis Church and Monastery
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Date: 
Fall 2004

ICON, Fall 2004

Like many in the field of preservation, I have often wondered at just what point a work of human genius becomes a monument. Is it at the moment when its foundation is aid, or long after its creator or patron has passed into the otherworld, or is it sometime in between? Read more
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Fall 2004

Local Heroes

Embraced by two of the world’s great mountain ranges—the Himalaya and the Karakoram—the tiny Buddhist kingdom of Ladakh—now part of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir—is one of the most desolate places on Earth. Yet it is also one of the most enchanting with its snow-capped peaks and rugged...Read more
Country: 
India
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Basgo Gompa (Maitreya Temples)
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Fall 2004

Balkan Renaissance

Perched high atop the steep banks of the Neretva River in southwestern Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Ottoman city of Mostar was for centuries a shining example of multiethnic diversity in the heart of the Balkans, a region often rocked by war and conquest. Following the collapse of Communism in the early...Read more
Country: 
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Mostar Historic Center
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Fall 2004

Jupiter Rising

Among the most imposing of all the ancient Roman ruins lining the Dalmatian Coast are those of a palace built by the emperor Diocletian (r. a.d. 284–305) for his retirement in his hometown of Split. More fortress than residence, the palace, which overlooks the Bay of Aspalathos, once covered an...Read more
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Croatia
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Diocletian's Palace, Split Historic Center
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