Word: vecchio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last getting back its looted art, mostly from an Austrian salt mine where the Nazis had hidden it. The rescued treasures included such famed paintings as Bruegel's Blind Leading the Blind, Titian's Danae, Joos van Cleve's Adoration of the Magi, Palma Vecchio's Sacra Conversazione, Tiepolo's Neptune Offering Gifts to Venice...
...Florence, U.S. Army officers were hard at work rebuilding a part of the Nazi-destroyed, rubble-rimmed banks of the Ponte Vecchio. Four of Florence's famed medieval towers had been badly damaged; three were already repaired. Fixing the wobbly fourth, 100-year-old Torre degli Amidei, was the immediate problem...
...world knew it is no more." Thus last week cabled New York Times Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews. His dispatch dashed recent hopes that Florence had suffered little at Nazi hands. Said Matthews: ". . . The heart of Florence is gone. . . . What little credit [the Nazis] previously got for sparing the Ponte Vecchio (TIME, Aug. 14) must now be withdrawn . . . because instead they destroyed many medieval palaces at both ends, changing the whole aspect of old Florence...
...Paris had lost its Ile Saint-Louis and Place des Vosges, or Vienna its Hofburg and its Opera House on the Ringstrasse. For the mellow buildings near the Ponte Vecchio, on either side of the Arno, formed one of the most cherished views in the world. Most of that crowded, encrusted skyline is now gone. "Palace after palace, dating from the 14th to the 16th Century, are heaps of rubble. In the wreckage lie such things as the ancient manuscripts, books and art objects of the Societa Colombaria. . . ."* Total or heavy destruction included...
...Gates of Paradise bronze doors to the Baptistery, the Bargello collection of pieces by Michelangelo, Donatello, Luca della Robbia, Benvenuto Cellini. However, while the retreating Germans had destroyed five of the six bridges over the Arno, they had left the oldest and most valued of all, the legendary Ponte Vecchio (see cut). Built in 1345, its roofed street was a promenade for Dante, Galileo and Leonardo da Vinci; in modern times, jewelry shops have succeeded its Renaissance goldsmiths. Over the bridge runs a covered passageway connecting the Uffizi Gallery with the Pitti Palace Museum...