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...well-fed Venus by Titian at $55,000 tops the list. Going at $16,500 are two Carravaggios, Profane Love and David with Goliath's Head; Gauguin's The Green Man, and Bronzino's Eleanor of Aragon. Pieter Breughel's Amsterdam under the Snow is priced at $14,850; Bronzino's Venus and Cupid at $13,750; Antonio Moro's Portrait of a Man and a Manet still life, Flowers and Fruit, at $11,000 each...
...Flemish Pieter Breughel the Elder's riotous, sexy The Wedding Dance, one of the world's best loved old-master paintings...
...most sensational art losses in Europe was the disappearance of two Titians and of Breughel the Elder's The Blind Leading the Blind while in transit from the German-held Monte Cassino Abbey to the Vatican...
...crates had been hauled from Monte Cassino, their first hiding place, by trucks of the Hermann Goering Division. Best guess was that the Titians had disappeared into flesh-loving Hermann's gallery of high-class nudes, the Breughel into Linz's Hitler Museum, which specializes in the Flemish masters...
...rubbed their eyes. Missing from the crates were 13 of the Naples' Museum's masterpieces, a scattering of lesser art works. Among the missing: a Raphael Madonna, Fra Filippo Lippi's Annunciation, Titian's Lavinia and Danae (value: between $500,000 and $800,000), Peter Breughel's The Blind Leading the Blind-the only Breughel in Italy. Total estimated value of the missing art (by Andy Mellon standards): from two to three million dollars...