If it wasn't for them, maybe we wouldn't see each other again

Adelbert 2022-04-19 09:01:50

The movie poster of The Monuments Men features a group of the most manly men, and it is exciting because they have saved so many precious works of art in World War II and have to love them more. This army personnel, including scholars, museum staff, architects, librarians, archivists, etc., was responsible for finding and protecting European art and cultural relics looted by the Nazis in castles and salt mines in Germany and Austria. Without them, maybe we would never see each other again:

Leonardo da Vinci, Lady with an Ermine, 1489-90, Czartoryski Museum, Poland;
Botticelli, Spring, 1482, Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy;
Goya, Time of the Old Women, 1820, Musee de Lyon, France;
Michelangelo, David, 1499-1501, Academy of Fine Arts, Florence;
Michelangelo, Bruges Madonna, 1501-1504, Church of Bruges, Belgium ;
Jan. Van Eyck, Ghent Altarpiece, 1432, St. Baft's Cathedral, Belgium;
Manet, Inside the Greenhouse, 1878-1879, Rembrandt Self-Portrait, National Gallery, Berlin
, 1643-1648, Staatskapelle, Karlsruhe, Germany

When it comes to inspiration, Captain James J. Rorimer in Operation Save the Artifacts later became director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York from 1955 to 1966.

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  • Wilfred 2022-04-24 07:01:06

    Even if the big coffee gathers, it is tasteless

  • Romaine 2022-04-01 09:01:04

    No plot, no point, no joke, no scene! fuck

The Monuments Men quotes

  • Claire Simone: [after listening to Granger attempt to communicate very badly in French] Would you stop speaking French? Or whatever language you are speaking?

    James Granger: Well, if it weren't for us, you'd... you'd be speaking German.

    Claire Simone: No. If it was not for you, I might be dead. But I would still be speaking French.

    James Granger: [Glances away] OK.

  • Walter Garfield: The army may not care about art, but they sure as shit care about gold.