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Will populist politics undo a renaissance at Italy’s Uffizi?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.
Painting looted by Nazis is returned to Florence museumFLORENCE, 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.
Uffizi urges Germany to return painting stolen by NazisMILAN (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.
Finery at its best in Michaan’s auction Dec. 5ALAMEDA, 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 […]