But then he pulls back to get some of the most stunning images in the book: wide-angle shots of an overflowing crowd yearning for freedom

Vasileios Petrakos is general secretary of the Archaeological Society at Athens

The entries in this book amplify and update the earlier volume Italian Maiolica

and the reconstruction of an important early krater by the Berlin Painter

The Central Collecting Point in Munich: A New Beginning for the Restitution and Protection of Art fantasy But then he pulls backIris Lauterbach Translated by Fiona Elliott Introduction by James J. Sheehan At the end of World War II, the US Office of Military Government for Germany and Bavaria, through its Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives division, was responsible for the repatriation of thousands of artwork, looted by the Nazis in the countries they had occupied. With the help of the US Army, massive numbers of objects were retrieved from their wartime hiding places and