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FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — To protect the masterpieces at the Uffizi Galleries, the Florence museum’s director climbed a ladder and hurled an employee’s bicycle down at a sheet of glass specially made to keep prized pieces such as Botticelli’s “Spring” and “Birth of Venus” safe from vandals.
FLORENCE, Italy (AP) – A Dutch still-life painting, stolen by retreating Nazis and sent by a German soldier as a present to his wife, came back to a Florence museum on Friday, thanks largely to a relentless campaign by the Uffizi Galleries’ director, a German.
MILAN (AP) – The director of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence is urging Germany to return a Dutch masterpiece stolen by Nazi troops during World War II, dramatizing its absence by hanging a black and white photo of the work with the label “Stolen” in three languages.
ALAMEDA, Calif. – Michaan’s Auctions’ December Fine Art Sale features superior items with property coming from estates, private collections and institutions throughout the West Coast. LiveAuctioneers.com will provide Internet live bidding for the Dec. 5 auction, which will begin at 10 a.m. Pacific. Fine art has a selection that includes 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century American […]