Word: uffizi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...batches of Canaletto. Horace Walpole scorned Smith as "the merchant of Ven ice," but that shrewd gentleman sold his purchases for some $300,000 to the King on the installment plan-with interest. George Ill's wife, Charlotte of Mecklenburg requested a sketch of Florence's Uffizi Gallery from a compatriot named Johann Zoffany. The elegant composite result (see opposite page) displeased the Hanoverian monarchs because of the prominence it gave to visiting Englishmen, even though it reproduced more than a dozen masterpieces of Italian art. Later scholars did blow ups of each of the copied paintings...
July 17, 1944, a Nazi truck convoy was crossing a pontoon bridge over the Po River in northern Italy when Allied bombers attacked. One driver was killed, but the trucks got across. Their cargo: a priceless haul of masterpieces, including the two pictured above, from Florence's Uffizi Gallery and Pitti Palace...
Italy's official lost-art detective, Rodolfo Siviero, flew to Pasadena and verified the find. After showings in Washington and New York, the Pollaiuolos were sent back to the Uffizi. German police, tracing wartime cronies of the Meindls, recovered five more looted paintings (including a Bronzino Deposizione and a Lorenzo di Credi) from an old man in Munich who turned them over on a police promise to keep his name secret...
...responded in droves. The Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo last year drew 782,800 visitors -more than New York's Museum of Modern Art or Guggenheim Museum, more than Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, more than Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, more than Florence's Uffizi, more than London's Tate Gallery-and five times as many as its own previous high...
...Gian Luigi Milesi Ferretti, Chief Justice Earl Warren and Attorney General Robert Kennedy stood before a throng of art enthusiasts to unveil two small paintings on wood illustrating the labors of Hercules by the 15th century Italian painter Pollaiuolo, recently recovered in California after having been stolen from the Uffizi by the Nazis during World...