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- ↑ Francine du Plessix Gray, "Rebuilding Rome," The New Yorker (June 6, 1994): 50.
- ↑ Francine du Plessix Gray, "Rebuilding Rome", The New Yorker (June 6, 1994): pp. 50, 54.
- ↑ Thomas E. Luebke, ed., Civic Art: A Centennial History of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, 2013.
- ↑ "Adele Chatfield-Taylor- Vincent Scully Prize". Archived from the original on 2014-07-06. Retrieved 2014-06-20.
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