Monuments men

Photograph by Pierre Jahan/Archives des museés nationaux Beginning in 1938, the threat of war prompted a large-scale evacuation of France’s public art collections. The storage sites ch…

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They came from the best museums and universities in the country: Art historians, curators, artists and architects who probably never dreamed of joining

I knew this would not be easy. Johannes Vermeer, that seventeenth-century Dutch “master of light,” produced only 35 known paintings, which today are among the most valuable objects in the world. Art…

One-time Latin teacher Frank P. Albright was among the Monuments Men who helped save some of Europe’s most important art and cultural treasures from the ravages of World War II.

Without the work of these curators and professors, tens of thousands of priceless works of art would have been lost to the world forever

Rose Valland (1898-1980) The French art historian Rose Valland (1898–1980) worked at the Jeu de Paume in Paris during the Occupation. The museum was used by the “Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg” as an interim storage facility for looted art. At the risk of her life, Valland kept secret inventory lists of the delivered works and their destinations in Germany.