still from “the rape of europe,” a spectacular art history film, documenting the plundering of master artworks during WWII. there is a brief profile on french resistance hero ROSE VALLAND, as well as the MONUMENT MEN tasked with redistributing the works back to their rightful owners. some works are still “lost” to this day. the most famous of which is RAPHAEL’s “portrait of a young man.”
“art belongs to humanity, without it we are animals. we just fight, we live, we eat. art is, it’s what makes us human.”
— MIKHAIL PIOTROVSKY, director of the hermitage museum