Everything that Italian is priceless no one compete with Italian Art they are Noble Grand  Masters and the rest is no class no style no technics  and Jews talks pile of rubbish they always be cheep camel traders they should go back to they desert and never come back.   

Thank the Germans that we have all this art and Rome & Florence were saved?????

Th at has to be one of the most idiotic things I've ever heard....THE GERMANS STARTED WORLD WAR II! There wouldn't have been bombing if the Nazis hadn't invaded Europe.

@Brasivnika

Y ou are absolutely right. The "stolen" artworks "hidden" by the Nazis underground only exist today because they were there; otherwise the indiscriminate Allied bombing would have incinerated them.

Incredi ble cultural treasures were destroyed by the Allies' terrorist saturation bombing campaign in WWII (to say nothing of the human cost). Goethe's home in Frankfurt...Brahms' flat and piano in Vienna where he composed his greatest works...the room Frederick the Great and JS Bach played in at Sans Souci...the list is very long. 

You can thank Hitler that the cities of Rome and Florence still stand because he ordered they not be defended to save them from destruction -- that was when he could afford such considerations.

Thousands of cultural objects "vanished"in 1945 because they were looted by Allied soldiers. Among the examples are the original instruments from the Bayreuth opera house which have not been seen since. I suspect this Raphael could have been similarly "liberated" -- perhaps why the article does not mention WHERE the painting was found (maybe in America, Britain, or the former USSR?)