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File Size: 1644 KB
Print Length: 336 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First edition (June 22, 2010)
Publication Date: June 22, 2010
Sold by: Macmillan
Language: English
ASIN: B005XMKA5K
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My wife read this a few years ago and then again for class this past spring and she loved it all over again. She would recommend it to others who enjoy European art history that was saved by the Monuments Men and women from World War II. This book focuses more on Italy then the actual Monuments Men book and it co-insides with Saving Italy.
I ordered three different books about stolen artwork/jewels from Amazon at one time. I began with the Venus Fixers, moved on to Chasing Aphrodite and ended with Flawless. The Venus Fixers was the least enjoyable of the three.I am familiar with Italian Rennaisance art, with Florence, Rome and Sienna but still felt bogged down in all the minutae. The book had no central focus to drive the narrative - I understand that there were lots of different players involved who helped save the artwork of Italy... but the book never felt exciting - that we were a first hand witness to critical events - that the Venus Fixers raced to rescue the artistic jewels of Italy.The book was interesting, just not engrossing. I was hoping that a story of Allied forces saving entire cities and their monuments and artwork from destruction would be thrilling - unfortunately, the Venus Fixers doesn't come close to that. It's more a laundry list of place names, beauracratic names and artwork. Most times when a famous piece of artwork was listed, there was no context for it. I always wanted to ask: why is that piece of art or that monument important?Read the book for its detail, but don't expect it to be a page-turner.
A very interesting account of the small band of remarkable men who tried to protect and stabilize the the monuments and art treasures of Italy as the Allies advanced. It is also an interesting account of the Italian front and the two years that it took to push the Germans out of Italy. For anyone familiar with Italy and its art, it is intriguing ti understand how close the world came to losing it. And it is a real tribute to the Americans and the British who understood how precious a heritage it is and how important it was to preserve it. Subsequent armies have not devoted time and expense and energy to preserving the treasures of other invaded countries. Definitely worth reading.
When I picked up the book, I initially had the impression that this will develop into a telephone directory type of book: too many names, too many details. But by the time I read the first 100 pages I was hooked.Why: because it brought into focus, even to one like me, who lived during WWII in Europe, and lived under bombs and survived them, how little we know, how "nothing" really we know about the manner in which so many masterpieces we admire matter-of-factly at the Uffizi, Accademia, the Archaeological Museum in Napoli, the cathedrals which we visit and admire everywhere in Italy, the bridges, the Palazzi, etc., how all these were saved by only a small number of Allied officers and by the work of most of the 50 Italian superintendents who were entrusted with these treasures, alas! too late in some cases, when the Allied forces landing in Italy in 1943.Much of the book concentrates on Tuscany and on Florence, but there is plenty about the South and the North of Italy.Personally, I will never look in the same way at Boticelli's Primavera, I will never walk along the Lungarno in Florence without imagining palazzi destroyed, bridges over the Arno annihilated, the Palazzo Pitti serving as shelter for 6000 people while the bridges and palazzi of the Arno were being blasted, 6000 people living in the Pitti in the midst of the art treasures, cooking, sleeping, worrying, waiting the war out. Among them Carlo Levi, and the Guicciardinis of the street with the same name whose palazzo on the Lungarno was mined and blasted, so many others without famous names. How the destruction was observed with great risk to life by Italian art and monuments public officers from the relative shelter of the Corridoio Vasariano, which remained almost undamaged due to Hitler fixation over the Ponte Vecchio, the only Florence bridge not to be blasted by the retreating German army.There is much about masterpieces gone forever: the bombed Camposanto in Pisa (later partially restored), the 50 or more churches of Genoa, the Ovetari Chapel in Padua and with it the Mantegna frescoes, the Ponte di Mezzo of Verona which was considered the oldest Roman bridge in Italy. So many which we will never see!This book tells us what was saved, and how, and by whom. And what was lost.Personally, thanks to this book, I will never again enter any of these museums and admire these monuments thinking that they have been there forever and forever will remain. They are fragile, and I now look at them as a gift from those who braved bombs and politics and conspired and took enormous risks to themselves in order to preserve them for us, and for those after us.D. Midroni, Moderator, Slow Travel [...]
Interesting parallel to the more popular Monuments Men (from which the movie script was based). Set in Italy, it portrays the struggle these dedicated men experienced in coping with the Germans trying to steal that country's art and the unusual efforts Italians had done to protect the treasures. Also describes how coping with military rules/regulations were handled. A good read for those who enjoy historical twists.
This has fascinating history of WWII. It is almost a study book as it is so filled with art history. You learn some about the men involved as well as their struggles to accomplish the goal of protecting the art treasures. The story of the suffering of the Italian people affected by the war is in the story also. I look forward to seeing the movie about this historical time period.
A thorough research of what happened to Italian art during WWII. Very tedious to read, so many names, places and dates. Very hard to keep track of who was who. Any WWII buff would love it. I did find interest in the history as I will be traveling sometime to Italy within the next few years and would love to go to Florence to see the only bridge that Hitler did not blow up.
I did not realize how close we came to losing so many works of great art during WWII, and that a group of officers had been designated to save and restore these priceless works of art, buildings, bridges, churches, etc. It also shows how people can work together to save the local culture and history just for the sake of preserving the culture without expecting anything in return. This is a story that has been quiet for too long.
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