To protect the treasures, museums find a little detective work pays AP Worldstream | June 16, 2006| | . Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

STEVE KARNOWSKI, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
06-16-2006
Dateline: MINNEAPOLIS
The painting, by a lesser-known 17th-century Dutch artist, was pleasant enough: a view of a Roman market square around 1660, people going about their business.

But it was the back of "The Piazza del Popolo, Rome" that really interested Erika Holmquist-Wahl, a curatorial assistant at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. That's where she spotted a telltale number that suggested the piece had been looted by the Nazis.

"Every painting has a story to tell," Holmquist-Wahl says. "Sometimes, it's just on the back."

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