Ebook: Saving Italy: the race to rescue a nation's treasures from the Nazis
Author: Allied Forces. Supreme Headquarters. Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section, Edsel Robert M, Hartt Frederick, Keller Deane
- Tags: Art thefts, Art thefts--Italy--History--20th century, Art treasures in war, Art treasures in war--Italy--History--20th century, Cultural property--Protection, Cultural property--Protection--Italy--History--20th century, World War 1939-1945, History, Biography, Art, Allied Forces. -- Supreme Headquarters. -- Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section -- History, Keller Deane -- 1901-1992, Hartt Frederick, Art treasures in war -- Italy -- History -- 20th century, World War 1939-1945 -- Art and the war, Art t
- Series: Norton paperback
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- City: Italy
- Language: English
- epub
When Hitler's armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind's greatest cultural treasures. As they had done throughout Europe, the Nazis could now plunder the masterpieces of the Renaissance, the treasures of the Vatican, and the antiquities of the Roman Empire. In May 1944 two unlikely American heroes--artist Deane Keller and scholar Fred Hartt--embarked from Naples on the treasure hunt of a lifetime, tracking billions of dollars of missing art, including works by Michelangelo, Donatello, Titian, Caravaggio, and Botticelli.
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