Michelangelo's Madonna and child packed and loaded onto a truck
Object Details
- Subject
- Allied Forces. Supreme Headquarters. Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section
- World War, 1939-1945
- Place of publication, production, or execution
- No place, unknown, or undetermined
- Physical Description
- 1 photographic print : b&w ; 16 x 11 cm.
- Summary
- Identification on verso (handwritten): Bruges Madonna loaded for shipment by truck from Alt Aussee to Munich.
Shows several men and one woman overseeing the preparation of the sculpture, which is fully wrapped, for transport to the Munich Central Collecting Point. - Citation
- Michelangelo's Madonna and child packed and loaded onto a truck, 1945. Thomas Carr Howe papers, 1932-1984. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Use Note
- Current copyright status is undetermined
- Location Note
- Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. 20560
- 1945
- Record number
- (DSI-AAA)15089
- Type
- Photographs
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- Thomas Carr Howe papers, 1932-1984
- Archives of American Art
- Topic
- Art and war
- Record ID
- AAADCD_item_15089
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
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