Florence was cut off and many of the city's art treasures were damaged.
Museum assistant Hu Way says that for all its formidable connections Poly is not about to buy up all of China's overseas art treasures.
Yet Italy is home to an astounding two-thirds of the world's art treasures, according to UNESCO, giving the government a sense of global responsibility.
Like the National Gallery in Washington, the Hermitage in Leningrad (now St Petersburg) and other Russian galleries also took a fancy to German art treasures located by Soviet troops in 1945.
In Uncovering treasures at Art Basel Miami Beach, Nicole Berry provides tips on navigating the more than 250 exhibits in this year's Art Basel, one of the biggest art events of the year.
That community today includes musicians, professional and amateur dancers, choreographers, composers, songwriters, teachers of the art and the national living treasures who embody the culture of tango.
The ancient Omayyad Mosque, which like the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem is one of the greatest treasures of Islamic art, is a unique site that was once a church and a mosque at the same time.
Rooms of medieval and Renaissance art and a separate pavilion for Asian treasures are fine and absorbing, but unexceptional.
The stately building is home to one of the world's top collections of Chinese art, including most of the imperial treasures once housed in Beijing's Forbidden City.
It has made great art available to the masses and made historical treasures available to future generations.
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"Art in the Age of Queen Victoria: Treasures from the Royal Academy of Arts" showcases 76 paintings and sculptures from an era when London's Royal Academy was the world's premier arts institution.
Brownfield lent them books on American art and heard tales of heartbreak at watching the looting of ancient treasures from Iraq's national museum.
Among its treasures are dozens of original drafts of speeches, including a 1897 unpublished manuscript Churchill wrote on the art of rhetoric.
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