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>      Does anyone have more information on the destruction of the Arena
>      Chapel in Assisi, Italy?

Check the Museum Secuirty List at
http://museum-security.org/

Their listing for Sept 28th included:
SEVERAL REPORTS ABOUT EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY:
- Treasures of 13th and 14th century left cracked and crumbling after
earthquakes rock central Italy (More on Assissi earthquake)
- Italy quake latest chapter in ``Curse of Cimabue''
- St. Francis' Legacy
- New tremors halt friars' battle to save Assisi art
- Frescos damaged beyond repair by earthquake (art historian, Federico
Zeri, has blamed poor and "idiotic"
restoration work in the 1950s and 1960s)

Regards,
Jose

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José A. Ortiz
Assistant Manager, The Cloisters
a branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
212-650-2289
http://www.metmuseum.org/htmlfile/gallery/cloister/cloister.html