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  1. Ben Building: Mussolini, Monuments and Modernism (2016)

    Subject
    Architecture

    Jonathan Meades investigates the architecture of Mussolini’s Italy. He finds a dictator caught between the forces of modernism and a revivalism that harked back to ancient Rome.

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  2. Spanish Chapel, The (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Amanda Willett
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The chapter house of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, now known as the Spanish Chapel, contains an extraordinary fresco cycle by Andrea Bonaiuti. Dr Joanna Cannon explains some of the complex theological...

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  3. Propping Up Pisa (1992 Video)

    Producer
    Cynthia Page
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 1995 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Examimes theories behind the tilt of the leaning tower of Pisa and its acceleration, leading to the prediction of the tower’s imminent collapse. One theory is that expansion caused by the heat of the sun...

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