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August 1989

Razing of Romania's Past

The industrialization of Romania led to the tripling of its urban population in the three decades prior to 1980, as people moved from the rural villages to fill jobs in the cities. To meet the increased demand for housing, Romania’s communist party launched a program of “...Read more
Country: 
Romania
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Date: 
January 1986

The Antisala Ceiling in the Biblioteca Marciana

The Venice Committee of the World Monuments Fund maintains an office and Visitors Center in the Church of the Pieta in Venice. It has supported more than 20 major building restorations and conservation projects sillce the disastrous floods of 1966. The Committee also sponsors a wide range of...Read more
Country: 
Italy
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Biblioteca Marciana
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Date: 
August 1973

Bartolomeo Colleoni

Part of an effort to raise awareness about monuments damaged in the Venice floods of 1966, this booklet provides a summary of the life of Bartolomeo Colleoni, perhaps the most famous of the condottieri, or military commanders, of fifteenth century Italy. While fighting for the Serenissima of Venice...Read more
Country: 
Italy
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Bartolomeo Colleoni Monument
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Date: 
1970

Venice in Peril

In the aftermath of unprecedented flooding in Venice during the fall of 1966, at which time waters rose two meters higher than normal, the International Fund for Monuments (now World Monuments Fund) strove to raise awareness about the dire challenges faced by the city. As part of these efforts,...Read more
Country: 
Italy
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Querini Stampalia Library, Scuola Grande dei Carmini (Scuola Grande Di Santa Maria del Carmelo), Scuola Grande Di San Giovanni Evangelista, Schola Canton, Scuola Grande Di San Rocco, Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta, Santa Maria del Giglio Church (Santa Maria Zobenigo), San Giovanni in Bragora, Basilica of San Pietro Di Castello, Ca' D'oro, Jewish Cemetery on the Lido
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Date: 
c. 1960s

Walls of Verona

The founder of the International Fund for Monuments (now World Monuments Fund), Col. James Gray compiled this study of fortified walls of Verona in 1954, while stationed with the U.S. military in Italy. Gray traces the origin and development of the city walls from the third century B.C. to the...Read more
Country: 
Italy
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Date: 
1967

Lalibela, Phase I

In 1965, upon consultation with Merid Asfa Wossen, the former Crown Prince of Ethopia, the International Fund for Monuments (now World Monuments Fund) commissioned Dr. Sandro Angelini to conduct a survey and restoration cost-estimate for the site of Lalibela, Ethopia, where a group of eleven...Read more
Country: 
Ethiopia
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Rock-Hewn Churches
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Date: 
December 2022

2022 in Review

The past year has brought exciting new partnerships, new initiatives, and raised new challenges. As a way of reflecting on 2022 in preparation for the year to come, we’re highlighting some of the accomplishments the World Monuments Fund (WMF) team has achieved over the course of the previous 12... Read more
Overview of Satterwhite Memorial After Recaulking at Cave Hill cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky
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