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Article: Rome's Embassy of the Arts; At the American Academy, a New Director and an Old Budget
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- The Washington Post
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- September 3, 1988
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Striding through the still and shaded courtyard, past the rows of
ancient amphorae, the broken marble statuary and walls embedded with
carved Roman tablets, Prof. Joseph Connors was visibly awed.
"Isn't this incredible?" asked the art historian from Columbia
University, waving a delicate hand toward all the fragments of
Imperial Rome that graced the surrounding Palazzo. "All these
artifacts were dug up right here when the Palazzo was built at the
turn of the century."
"This is where my work is, this is where my art is," said the
scholar of architecture, pausing at the courtyard's gurgling fountain
to gaze out over the sun-drenched domes and tile rooftops of Rome. "I
feel like I'm ...