Monuments Men in Italy

[Chuckanut]

Here is a great article about how the Monuments Men in Italy helped to save countless works of historical and artistic significance as WW2 was drawing to an end.

http://www.lifeinitaly.com/art/monuments-men

[ratto]

It is indeed amazing to think how those precious arts were preserved and restored during and after the war. While waiting to climb the Pisa tower, I visited Campo Santo and was very impressed by the beauty of some statues there. Like this one, Tomb of Ottaviano Fabrizio Mossotti | Flickr - Photo Sharing!. She would just literally appear to be alive in a B&W photo, really amazing.

[justplainbll]

I Quattro Mori - The Four Moors Statue | Livorno Now