Real-Life 'Monuments Man' In Spotlight At New Haven Museum

Dec 23, 2014 638

In 1926, Deane Keller of New Haven won the Prix de Rome, a prestigious award that allowed him to study art in Italy for three years. Little did he know that those three years were setting the stage for his greatest accomplishment.

During World War II, President Roosevelt recruited art experts to go to Europe to protect their art treasures and cultural heritage from the ravages of the Nazis. Keller, then a professor at Yale, was assigned to go to Italy.

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