Word: cria
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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...earlier counts, approximately 885 art works were damaged or ruined. But, according to the report of the Committee to Rescue Italian Art (CRIA), this is only a third of the works actually damaged. There were several major losses. The Baptistery doors, including Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise, were swept off their hinges and smashed against the buildings...
...group of art scholars at the Fogg Museum have joined others in forming the Committee to Rescue Italian Art (CRIA). The committee has already sent American restorers to Italy and also wants to help meet the costs of restoration. It is soliciting contributions now and hopes to receive enough to save a significant number of paintings, documents and sculptures from being completely lost.Interior of the National Library in Florence after the flood...
Working the Record. From the way help is arriving, the Renaissance belongs to everyone. Spontaneously, a Committee to Rescue Italian Art (CRIA) was set up in the U.S. by museums and college art departments, with Jacqueline Kennedy as its active president. Its aim: to raise $2,500,000 for salvage operations. One of its first acts: to dispatch 16 expert restorers to the site to help out. But the biggest requirement is helping hands. One California art historian, Eve Borsook of Pasadena, who rescued 130,000 negatives of art objects from the Uffizi, rushed them to Harvard's Villa...