Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago

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This eighteenth-century Roman portrait, Étienne-René Cardinal Potier de Gesvres by Pompeo Batoni, has a history of deception and redemption tied to World War II. Hear its story, including how it was rescued by the Allied officers of the famed Monuments Men division.

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