Sunday, June 2 | 3:00 p.m. - Harold M. Williams Auditorium

FREE, reservations recommended. Call (310) 440-7300 or visit getty.edu

On the eve of the Allied invasion of Italy in August 1943, Allied bombs threatened Michelangelo's David and nearly destroyed Leonardo's Last Supper. This is the true story of the race to save great masterpieces. Robert M. Edsel's new book, Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis, follows Monuments officers Deanne Keller (a portrait painter and art professor) and Fred Hartt (an art scholar), who raced to discover the location of billions of dollars of missing artwork taken from the great museums in Florence and Naples as they served alongside frontline troops. Signed copies of Saving Italy will be available for purchase at the event.

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