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The Venus fixers : the remarkable story of the Allied soldiers who saved Italy's art during World War II / Ilaria Dagnini Brey.
LIBRA N6911 .B74 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brey, Ilaria Dagnini, 1955-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Allied Forces. Supreme Headquarters. Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section.
- Art, Italian.
- Art treasures in war--Italy--History--20th century.
- Art treasures in war.
- Cultural property--Protection--Italy--History--20th century.
- Cultural property.
- Allied Forces. Supreme Headquarters. Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section--Officials and employees.
- Allied Forces.
- Cultural property--Protection.
- History.
- Italy.
- Physical Description:
- 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
- Contents:
- Italian art goes to war
- "Men must manoeuvre"
- Sicilian prelude
- The birth of the Venus fixers
- The conflict of the present and the past
- Treasure hunt
- Florence divided
- A time to rend, a time to sew
- The duelists
- Epilogue: a necessary dream.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references ( pages [283]-287) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780374283094
- 0374283095
- OCLC:
- 263984526
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