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The Monuments Men is a 2014 war film directed by George Clooney and written and produced by Clooney and Grant Heslov. The film stars an ensemble cast including Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville and Cate Blanchett . The film is based on the 2007 non-fiction book The Monuments Men: Allied ...
The female members finally move into the spotlight. JAMIE STENGLE. February 16, 2024 at 9:28 PM. DALLAS (AP) — After World War II, the U.S. Army’s art experts set out to find and return ...
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima ( Japanese: 硫黄島の星条旗[citation needed][relevant?], Hepburn: Iōtō no Seijōki, lit. 'The Stars and Stripes on Iōtō') is an iconic photograph of six United States Marines raising the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in the final stages of the Pacific War.
Rose Valland. Rose Antonia Maria Valland (1 November 1898 – 18 September 1980) was a French art curator, member of the French Resistance, captain in the French military, and one of the most decorated women in French history. She secretly recorded details of the Nazi plundering of National French and private Jewish-owned art from France; and ...
As Monuments Men opens this week with an all-star cast led by George Clooney and Matt Damon, so does an exhibit dedicated to the Monuments Men at Kansas City's Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
The Monuments Men and Women Foundation, formerly known as the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art, is an American IRS-approved 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, which honors the legacy of those who served in the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program during and after World War II, more commonly known as the Monuments Men and Women.
The Madonna of Bruges is a marble sculpture by Michelangelo of the Virgin and Child . Michelangelo's depiction of the Madonna and Child differs significantly from earlier representations of the same subject, which tended to feature a pious Virgin smiling down on an infant held in her arms. Instead, Jesus stands upright, almost unsupported, only ...
The World War II Unknown was selected from remains exhumed from cemeteries in Europe, Africa, Hawaii, and the Philippines. [ 16 ] Two Unknowns from World War II, one from the European Theater and one from the Pacific Theater , were placed in identical caskets and taken aboard USS Canberra and placed on either side of the Korean unknown.