March 17, 1998
							Contact:
Charlotte Crystal
								     (804)
924-6858


Bayly Art Museum Lecture Series
HECTOR FELICIANO, WHO TRACKS NAZIS' STOLEN ART,
TO SPEAK AT U.VA.

	More than 50 years after the end of World War II, many art works
stolen by the Nazis from Jewish private collections have not been
returned to their rightful owners or their descendants. A passion to
find out what happened to some of the world's greatest art treasures
during and after the war led art historian Hector Feliciano to research
and write a book, "The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the
World's Greatest Works of Art."
	Feliciano will discuss his research at the University of
Virginia's Newcomb Hall Theater at 5 p.m. on Sunday, March 22.
	Feliciano is editor-in-chief of World Media Network, a
Paris-based European newspaper syndicate, which provides cultural
supplements to 20 newspapers. "The Lost Museum," published last year,
identifies hundreds of works of art stolen by Nazis.
	Feliciano's presentation, which is free and open to the public,
will be the 1998 Gladys S. Blizzard Lecture. This annual lecture series
honors the late Ms. Blizzard who founded the education program at
U.Va.'s Bayly Art Museum.
	Co-sponsors of this year's lecture are the Hillel Jewish Center
and the following U.Va. departments and programs: the departments of
French, German, history, religious studies, and government and foreign
affairs; the Theory Seminar; the Center for Russian and East European
Studies; the Graduate Student Council; and the Special Lectures
Committee.
	Parking is available in the Emmet Street parking garage.
Feliciano will sign copies of his book, which will be on sale, after the
lecture.
	For more information, call the Bayly Art Museum at (804)
924-3592.

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