Posted on 02/09/2014 9:04:29 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
Captain Robert Posey and Pfc. Lincoln Kirstein were the first through the small gap in the rubble blocking the ancient salt mine at Altausee, high in the Austrian Alps in 1945 as World War II drew to a close in May 1945. They walked past one sidechamber in the cool damp air and entered a second one, the flames of their lamps guiding the way.
There, resting on empty cardboard boxes a foot off the ground, were eight panels of The Adoration of the Lamb by Jan van Eyck, considered one of the masterpieces of 15th-century European art. In one panel of the altarpiece, the Virgin Mary, wearing a crown of flowers, sits reading a book.
"The miraculous jewels of the Crowned Virgin seemed to attract the light from our flickering acetylene lamps," Kirstein wrote later. "Calm and beautiful, the altarpiece was, quite simply, there."
Kirstein and Posey were two members of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives section of the Allies, a small corps of mostly middle-aged men and a few women who interrupted careers as historians, architects, museum curators and professors to mitigate combat damage. They found and recovered countless artworks stolen by the Nazis.
(Excerpt) Read more at smithsonianmag.com ...
I agree with all you say.
Where is the fat guy?
What part, if any, does the collection of religious art at The Cloisters have in all of this?
My comment was merely with respect to the post above concerning the painting marked as being from Monte Cassino.
My husband and I saw the movie Friday night. We really enjoyed it and are glad we went to see it.
Good article. Now I won’t have to consider suffering through yet another ClooneyDamon “I love me” bomb.
either, buttttt, hes having my baby
Speaking of western culture, we’re fast losing what little remains of that which so many have died to try to preserve. And it appears many more lives will be lost if we’re to save what’s left — if we can.
And, no, this is NOT off topic.
WOMAN’S LIB AND ISLAM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0cS4p9cFlo&feature=c4-overview&list=UUFDlhK80EdO28R-iGTXiGaw
I remember seeing a few episodes of the Civilisation series many years ago. I wonder if Netflix has them.
All 13 episodes are on youtube :-)
Honesty and trustworthiness are the hallmarks of both great people and nations. We now live in the Age of Distrust. What does that tell you?
I will not go to see this movie because of the leftist actors who spout out their leftist dribble at us.
Ping.
You will miss a very good (not great) movie that has no apparent leftism in it.
Me neither. I don't care how great a movie is, I will not subsidize these leftist/Marxist, America hating actors and entertainment companies with my hard earned $$$$.
I am doing my part to starve the beast by not subsidizing these filthy America hating actors and entertainment companies - more conservatives and like minded American Patriots need to do the same, to really put a financial hurt on these anti-American actors and entertainment companies and send them a loud, financial message they will hear loud and clear!!!
The Army organized the European Civil Affairs Division (ECAD) to run the occupation of Germany and oversee local government. Part of their mission was also to seize and secure art and historical artifacts. IIRC, they recovered quite a bit of stuff.
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