Piazzoni Murals to Get New Home.(Brief Article) Art in America | February 1, 2000| | COPYRIGHT 2000 Brant Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

After more than two years of bitter dispute, 14 murals by Gottardo Piazzoni have finally been removed from their original home in the loggia of San Francisco's Old Main Public Library [see "Front Page," Apr., Nov. '97, Feb. '99]. The murals, which were installed in the '30s, were removed against the advice of preservation experts in order to accommodate the library's renovation and redesign by Italian architect Gae Aulenti, who was commissioned to convert the Beaux-Arts building into a new home for the city's Asian Art Museum.

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