{"id":697,"date":"2012-04-22T22:21:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T04:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=697"},"modified":"2012-08-11T12:59:08","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T18:59:08","slug":"in-the-news-romaninos-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=697","title":{"rendered":"In the news: Romanino&#8217;s Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=700\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-700\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-700\" title=\"The Lost Museum by H. Feliciano\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Wlostmuseum.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Wlostmuseum.jpg 169w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Wlostmuseum-96x150.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=2003\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2003\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2003\" title=\"Romanino's Christ, [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Wromanino-265x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Wromanino-265x300.png 265w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Wromanino-132x150.png 132w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Wromanino.png 530w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><\/a>The\u00a0Italian Renaissance masterpiece, <em>Christ Carrying a Cross Dragged by a Rogue<\/em>, painted by Girolamo Romanino, was seized by US officials while on tour in Tallahassee and, as reported in the British newspaper <em>The Telegraph<\/em> (19 April 2012), returned to the descendants of the earlier owner, Federico Gentili di Giuseppe, an Italian of Jewish descent, who\u00a0had purchased the painting at an auction in Paris in 1914.<\/p>\n<p>This painting, like many others, had been seized by the Nazis during their occupation of France, 1940&#8211;1944. Both Hitler and Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering were avid collectors of stolen works of art. Much was never returned to the rightful owners.<\/p>\n<p>American writer Hector Feliciano provides a revealing account of the Nazis&#8217; systematic pillaging of European art in his book <em>The Lost Museum&#8211;The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World&#8217;s Greatest Works of Art<\/em> (Basic Books, 1995).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Italian Renaissance masterpiece, Christ Carrying a Cross Dragged by a Rogue, painted by Girolamo Romanino, was seized by US officials while on tour in Tallahassee and, as reported in the British newspaper The Telegraph (19 April 2012), returned to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=697\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,27,1],"tags":[48,49,7,47],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","category-in-the-news","category-world-war-ii","tag-girolamo-romanino","tag-hermann-goering","tag-hitler","tag-the-lost-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2004,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions\/2004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}