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Thursday, 19 May 2016 11:46

Long-Lost Renaissance Sculptures Found in Russian Museum’s Collection

Before WWII, the works were exhibited in the Bode Museum in Berlin. Before WWII, the works were exhibited in the Bode Museum in Berlin. Wikimedia Commons

Fifty-nine Italian Renaissance sculptures by such masters as Donatello, Luca della Robbia, Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, Andrea del Verrocchio, Francesco Laurana, and Mino da Fiesole, have been found in Russia’s Pushkin Museum. The works, which have been missing from Berlin’s collections since World War II, had been stored in a flak tower in Germany to protect them from bombs during the war. After two fires ravaged the structure, the works were believed to have been destroyed.

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