01691cam a2200289 4500 544937120 TxAuBib 20150108120000.0 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780393348804 paperback 0393348806 paperback SDY TxAuBib Edsel, Robert M. Saving Italy : the race to rescue a nation's treasures from the Nazis / Robert M. Edsel. xxii, 454 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-440) and index. 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. 20150108. Hartt, Frederick. Keller, Deane 1901-1992. Allied Forces Supreme Headquarters Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section. Cultural property Protection Italy History 20th century. Art thefts Italy History 20th century. World War II 1939-1945 Art and the war. Art treasurers in war Italy History 20th century. BTCLS