Looting, conflict and mining have caused terrible destruction

Sainsbury money is helping restore the fifteenth-century, Venetian-style masterpiece shelled in 1991

The rubble began to be cleared from the burnt-out shell of the theatre in May, as rumours leaked from the judicial enquiry that the fire which destroyed it in January may have been arson. There is no proof, however, and investigations continue, while the mayor of Venice, Massimo Cacciari, tries to speed up the rebuilding by putting the town hall technical department in charge of drawing up the preliminary plan

UNESCO conducted and produced a report on tourist threat to raise the alarm

The solution will involve low-tech improvements to the surroundings

£13 million voted by the government has yet to arrive: most of the restoration has so far been paid for by public donation. Alberto Ronchey, Minister for Culture, has declared his aim to see thirty new rooms created within three years in former storage space, tripling the size of the Uffizi

Unesco is coordinating a restoration programme for buildings from the Pyramid of Cheops to the Blue Mosque

The architect, whose entire career has been devoted to the tragic commemoration of war victims, is one of the very few Serbians brave enough to speak out against the current Serbian aggression. Here he describes the war fever that has gripped his country and lays the blame on the intellectuals

A harrowing look into the damage wreaked during the last seven months

The Spinola family has created a Foundation and is looking for sponsors; the State would like to get possession of the sadly-neglected building

Report of the Institute for the Protection of Monuments, Croatian Ministry of Education and Culture, with information collected by 5 October 1991

Signatories include The Art Newspaper's own Anna Somers Cocks

Neither the U.S.A. nor G.B. have ratified it, despite having insisted, with Turkey, on the inclusion of an exemption clause for military necessity

The 1954 convention is the product of nearly a century’s thought about cultural property in which it is implicit that it is the heritage of all mankind

Unlike in World War II, no commission exists to advise the military