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Beloved Brit Painting Once Owned by Hitler

Venus image now in National Gallery also hung in his apartment

By Peter Fearon,  Newser Staff

Posted Mar 28, 2008 11:17 AM CDT

(Newser) – A nude painting of Venus on display in London's National Gallery for 45 years—one of the gallery's most popular works—turns out to have been once owned by Adolf Hitler. The whimsical Cupid Complaining to Venus, by German master Lucas Cranach, was given to...   Read full story »

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