Figure 1
Rome, Piazza Colonna, Column of Marcus Aurelius: a protective structure made of reinforced concrete casings clad in brick protects the monument.
Source: Archivio Centrale dello Stato, Rome, ISIL code IT-RM0460.
Figure 2
Rome, Palazzo Venezia, Mostra d’Arte Italiana exhibition (May 1945): entry ticket showing the initial version of the exhibition’s title: ‘Mostra di Capolavori della pittura veneta e di opere d’arte di collezioni private romane’.
Source: Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, Special Collections, The Bernard Mann Peebles Papers, box 22.
Figure 3
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, installation view of ‘The War’s Toll of Italian Art’ exhibition, 18 October–24 November 1946.
Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, ISNI: 0004 1936 8761.
Figure 4
Basilica di San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, Rome, Allied bomber damage to the interior, July 1943.
Note: After the bombing of 19 July 1943, the upper part of the church’s front facade and the roof of the nave were torn down.
Figure 5
Basilica di San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, Rome: the damaged church facade, 20 June 1944.
Source: US Air Force, World War II Photographs, National Archives and Records Administration, 94245 USAF; National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) ref. no. 342-FH-3A25651-94245AC, ISNI: 0000000063650812.
Figure 6
Basilica di San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, Rome: detail of the portico, where traces of war damage remain visible on the capital after restoration. The frieze shows reintegration along both the cornice and the mosaic decoration, carried out according to the principle of simplified form.
Source: Author, 2019.