Armed With List, Italy Pursues Artworks Looted by Nazis (Q97487496)
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news article, NYT
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| English | Armed With List, Italy Pursues Artworks Looted by Nazis |
news article, NYT |
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Armed With List, Italy Pursues Artworks Looted by Nazis (English)
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Armed With List, Italy Pursues Artworks Looted by NazisFor decades, a list of artworks looted by the Nazis in Italy during World War II — including a grotesque marble head of a faun attributed to Michelangelo, a drawing of Christ by Tintoretto and a Titian portrait of the Renaissance writer Ludovico Ariosto — lay locked away here at the Foreign Ministry. Compiled in the 1960's, when Italy was keen on recovering the art, the catalogue of 2,356 objects was allowed to fade from prominence in the 1980's in deference to keeping good relations with West Germany. (English)