Preserving Pittsburgh's Renaissance Man

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Sunday, February 25, 2024, noon - 2 p.m. 5th floor Mueller Center - Heinz History Center - 1212 Smallman Street, Pittsburgh, PA. Register here. Join the Italian American Program to celebrate the reinstallation of Virgil Cantini’s mosaic mural in Downtown Pittsburgh.

This panel discussion with experts in art, architecture, and historic preservation will focus on Virgil Cantini, the Italian-born, Pittsburgh-based visual artist, and his 60-foot-long, 28-panel mosaic mural from 1964, which was removed in 2019 from its original site in a pedestrian tunnel.

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SOURCE: https://www.heinzhistorycenter.org

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