Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis (36 page)

HAVE YOU SEEN THESE WORKS OF ART?

T
he Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art continues the mission of the Monuments Officers by bringing visibility to cultural objects still missing from World War II and assisting those seeking to return such items. If you have information about a Monuments man or woman, or you possess a work of art, document, or other cultural item you believe was stolen or “liberated” during the war, please contact us at www.monumentsmenfoundation.org.

The following works of art are among the most prominent of the more than two thousand documented as stolen from Italy during the war.

1.
Raphael

Madonna of the Veil

Property of the Uffizi Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, Florence

Stolen from Villa Reich, Barberino di Mugello

2.
Sandro Botticelli

Portrait of an Unknown Young Man

Property of the Filangieri Museum, Naples

Stolen from Villa San Paolo di Belsito, Nola

3.
El Greco

Copy of Correggio’s “Night”

Property of the Contini Bonacossi Collection

Stolen from Villa di Trefiano, Poggio a Caiano

4.
Peter Paul Rubens

Three Theological Virtues

Property of a Private Collection, Rome

Stolen from the EGELI (Institute for Management and Sale of Property, Ministry of Finance) Repository

5.
Hans Memling

Portrait of a Young Man

Property of the Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Stolen from Castello di Poppi

6.
Bernardo Bellotto

View of the Grand Canal in Venice

Property of the Borbone-Parma Collection

Stolen from Villa delle Pianore, Lucca

7.
Bernardino Luini

Madonna and Child and Sister Alessandra Bentivoglio

Property of The Filangieri Museum, Naples

Stolen from Villa San Paolo di Belsito, Nola

8.
Jan van Huysum

Vase of Flowers

Property of the Palatine Gallery, Pitti Palace, Florence

Stolen from Montagnana

9.
Pietro Rotari

Portrait of a Girl

Property of the Contini Bonacossi Collection

Stolen from Villa di Trefiano, Poggio a Caiano

10.
Unknown Salzburg Goldsmith

Gold Plated Silver Tray

Property of the Silver Museum, Pitti Palace, Florence

Stolen from the Abbey of Monte Cassino

MONUMENTS MEN AND
WOMEN SERVING IN THE
MEDITERRANEAN THEATER

Maj. Paul Baillie Reynolds, British

Maj. H. E. Bell, British

T/5 Charles Bernholz, American

Pfc. Paul O. Bleecker, American

Fanny Bonajuto, Italian

Maj. John Bromwich, British

Capt. T. Humphrey Brooke, British

Lt. Col. Stanley Casson, British (Killed in transit)

Maj. J. M. Cook, British

Squadron Leader Douglas Cooper, British

Lt. Comdr. Perry B. Cott, USNR, American

Capt. Edward “Teddy” Croft-Murray, British

S/Sgt. Nicholas L. Defino, American

Lt. Col. Ernest DeWald, American

Sgt. D. L. Donn, British

Lt. Glanville Downey, American

Lt. Col. Dunbabin, British

Capt. Roger H. Ellis, British

Capt. Rodrick E. Enthoven, British

Capt. Thomas Worden French, British

Maj. Paul Gardner, American

Lt. Col. Mason Hammond, American

Lt. Col. N. C. L. Hammond, British

Lt. Frederick Hartt, American

Sir Hilary Jenkinson, British

Pfc. R. J. Jennings, American

Maj. Deane Keller, American

Maj. Bancel LaFarge, American

Lt. Kenneth O. Lippman, American

Angelo P. Lucia

Capt. Basil Marriott, British

Capt. Fred H. J. Maxse, British

Capt. William D. McCain, American

Lt. Col. Norman T. Newton, American

Cpl. D. Pascale, American

S/Sgt. Bernard Mann Peebles, American

Capt. Albert Sheldon Pennoyer, American

Capt. Cecil R. Pinsent, British

Salvatore C. Scarpitta, American

L. A. Sheppard, British

Fred W. Shipman, American

Lt. Col. Theodore Sizer, American

Capt. G. F. T. Wagstaff, British

Lt. Col. John Bryan Ward-Perkins, British

Capt. Sidney Blehler Waugh, American

Lt. Col. Mortimer Wheeler, British

Cpl. Edward N. Willard, American

Lt. Col. Sir Leonard Woolley, British