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How were most of Andrea Mantegna's Ovetari Chapel frescoes destroyed?
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Arrival of Cardinal Francesco Gonzaga, fresco by Andrea Mantegna, completed 1474; in the Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, Italy.
Most of Andrea Mantegna's frescoes in the Ovetari Chapel were destroyed by a bomb during World War II. Only two works, The Assumption and The Martyrdom of St. Christopher, survived the destruction.1