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Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts
18 October 2017

Different shades of recovery

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by Marc Masurovsky The process of recovery of looted cultural, artistic and religious objects is daunting for several reasons: If action is ...
11 November 2016

Swiss foreign cultural policy?

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by Marc Masurovsky At a time when one French Jewish family is beating its head against a brick wall to recover a painting by John Constable...
21 November 2011

"Christ carrying the cross," by Girolamo di Romano

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Christ Carrying the Cross Dragged by a Rogue, Girolamo Romano Source: New York Times, Arts Beat Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Scienc...
24 June 2011

Fascists, SS, and plunder in wartime Italy

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After the promulgation of the anti-Jewish laws of November 1938 by Mussolini’s Fascist government, Jews living in Italy became second- and t...
23 June 2011

Up close and personal at the Final Solution in Rome

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Among the mass of documents concerning the Final Solution which were made available to the general public are cable exchanges decoded by the...
06 June 2011

A 1940 “fait divers” in Fascist Italy

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Dateline 1940. Two years have elapsed since the Fascist Government of Benito Mussolini enacted anti-Jewish laws, inspired by the infamous ...
21 May 2011

May 1945 and beyond

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The Second World War is over in Europe and North Africa. The Third Reich no longer exists. The only active military front is in Asia where...
10 May 2011

More on restitution in postwar Italy

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Renewed attention is being given to the scope and breadth of objects of art plundered by the Nazis and their allies which entered the art ma...