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- Master work by Leonardo now in restoration in Florence
- Florence's Doors of Paradise restored
- Constantine the Great AD 313: anniversary exhibition in Milan and Rome
- Review of the new biography of Patrick Leigh Fermor
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- Successful Blue Guide India launches in Delhi and London.
- Apollo magazine's Book of the Year: Susan Harries' Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life
- Paul Stephenson's Constantine now out in paperback
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