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[2] [3] [4] The crates had a marking to identify the importance of the art pieces they contained: a yellow circle for very valuable art pieces, green for major works and red for world treasures (the Mona Lisa was marked with three red circles). Some of the art pieces were too big to be fit in a truck.
In response to warping and swelling experienced during its storage during World War II, and to prepare the picture for an exhibit to honour the anniversary of Leonardo's 500th birthday, the Mona Lisa was fitted in 1951 with a flexible oak frame with beech crosspieces. This flexible frame, which is used in addition to the decorative frame ...
During World War II, the Louvre conducted an elaborate plan of evacuation of its art collection. When Germany occupied the Sudetenland, many important artworks such as the Mona Lisa were temporarily moved to the Château de Chambord. When war was formally declared a year later, most of the museum's paintings were sent there as well.
Scotland Yard Investigator is a 1945 American crime film directed by George Blair and starring C. Aubrey Smith, Erich von Stroheim and Stephanie Bachelor. [1] Following the outbreak of the Second World War the Mona Lisa is moved to a London gallery for safekeeping, where a German art collector attempts to steal it.
During the Spanish Civil War in 1938, he supervised the evacuation of the Museo del Prado collections to Switzerland.. Before the German army arrived in Paris, and during the German occupation, and against the orders of the Vichy government, he organized the removal and safe storage, in the provinces (first in the Château de Chambord, [2] then in the Château de Sourches, Château de Saint ...
Rescuing Da Vinci is a largely photographic, historical book about art reclamation and preservation during and after World War II, written by American author Robert M. Edsel, published in 2006 by Laurel Publishing.
Brownlow and Henry F. Pulitzer, owner of the Isleworth Mona Lisa, for which a similar claim was made, genially disputed who had the "real" Mona Lisa in the press, [7] and both offered to show their respective Mona Lisa paintings at a London exhibition in 1972. [8] [9]
Albrecht Gaiswinkler (29 October 1905 – 11 May 1979) was an Austrian civil servant, social democrat (SPÖ) politician and resistance fighter, who, some believe, saved a copy of the Mona Lisa from destruction in an Austrian salt mine towards the end of World War II. Gaiswinkler was born in Bad Aussee, Austria. In 1934, he was a political ...