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Was Kimbell statue hiding a sordid sales history?

29th Jun, 2011

Robert Edsel, author of Rescuing Da Vinci and The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History was flipping though photographic archives when he came across what he calls "a smoking-gun photo." It showed the Kimbell's terra cotta bust of Renaissance art patron Isabelle d'Este being removed from the Altaussee salt mine, where Adolf Hitler stored the looted art he planned to use in the Führer museum.

Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/06/29/3189219/was-kimbell-statue-hiding-a-sordid.html#tvg