Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), Dutch shopkeeper, amateur naturalist, microscope maker, the first human being to see microbes...
...Neuschwanstein catalogs listed 21,000 items, including choice canvases by Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Fragonard, Boucher, Veronese; boxes of exquisite Renaissance jewelry, fine Tanagra figurines, antique carved ivory clocks, rich tapestries. Because files of orderly records and correspondence were captured intact at Neuschwanstein, the castle's contents may well be the most important cache of looted art yet to come to light in Europe...
Other discoveries of the week: ¶ A whopping collection of uncatalogued art objects-in a sealed mine near Alt-Aussee, high in the Austrian Alps. This "lode" is reported to include works from Monte Cassino, Rothschild collections from Paris and Vienna, the famed Ghent altarpiece by the Brothers Van Eyck, and a part of Goring's treasures. (Deep in the mine are Hitler's own library and personal correspondence...
...moving south, was rumored to have boarded the sealed, armored train and rolled off with his treasures. Art experts had reason to believe that the Göring loot included Raphael's Madonna of Divine Love, Botticelli's Minerva and Centaur, Titian's Portrait of Lavinia, Van Eyck's altarpiece The Adoration of the Lamb...
...cache in a Seigen (Germany) copper mine (TIME, April 16) was reported to contain Rubens' Descent to Hades, El Greco's Cross Carrier, Rembrandt's Self Portrait, Van Dyck's Holy Family, was estimated at some...