[Talisker]

The owner of the pieta ... grew up with the pieta hanging in the family home. It once crashed to the ground when hit by a tennis ball he and his brothers were playing with, but was undamaged.

LOL, museum curators around the world have to take valium after they read that.

[ansel12]

owned by a former American pilot has been

That is sure vague. I just watched the DVD "The Rape of Europa" tonight, about the industrial sized theft of art by the Nazis and Soviets, also with a lot of coverage of what was lost in the bombings and fires.

I highly recommend it, it is amazing to see the worlds great masterpieces being handled and put into army trucks, laying on floors where they were tossed, and so on.

[catman67]

They should have taken it to Antiques Roadshow!