LOUVRE SURVEYS COLLECTION FOR STOLEN TREASURES
N JANUARY, Paris’s Louvre museum hired a French expert on Nazi-looted art to comb through its collection, identify any illgotten treasures, and help return them to their rightful owners.
A Narrow Escape
CLIMBING A STEEP SLOPE a few miles outside the central Italian city of Sulmona, I come across a wooden bench grafted invitingly into the hillside and sit down to study the view. To the northeast lie Abruzzo’s smooth-topped Morrone Mountains, dotted w
