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About Florentine Art Under Fire
Product description Florentine Art under Fire is the intensely compelling, firsthand record of the efforts to preserve the priceless artwork of Tuscany, the birthplace of the Renaissance. Frankly and fearlessly recounting the success and failures of Allied forces to protect the treasures of Italian art, Frederick Hartt delivers a solemn reflection on the brutal effects of modern warfare on the fragile heritage of human achievement and the natural world. "These were the streets and squares scarcely altered since Giotto and Masaccio walked them. Here had been preserved, as nowhere else in the city, the Florence of the Middle Ages. Now, houses, towers, palaces with all they contained and with all their glorious memories, lay collapsed in mountainous heaps of rubble. Form to formlessness, beauty to horror, history to mindlessness, all in one blinding crash." A powerful account of tragedy and triumph, Florentine Art under Fire is an indisputably vital contribution to the study of art, war, and the human condition.
