Painting, stolen by Nazi soldier, is back in Florence museum
(WorldNews Germany)

Florence, Italy - A Dutch still-life painting, stolen by retreating Nazis and sent by a German soldier as a present to his wife, came back to a Florence museum on Friday, thanks largely to a relentless campaign by the Uffizi Galleries´ director, a German. The foreign ministers of German and Italy were on hand Friday at Palazzo Pitti, a Renaissance palace that is part of the Uffizi Galleries, for the unveiling of `Flower Vase,` a masterpiece by Jan van Huysum, an early 18th-century artist whose exquisitely detailed...