Italian masterpiece returns to Jewish man's heirs

Thursday, April 19, 2012

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- U.S. authorities ended a more than 70-year-old art drama Wednesday when they returned a 16th-century masterpiece to the heirs of a Jewish man after they sought for years to reclaim the painting wrested away during World War II.

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