Tuesday, September 20, 2011 -
Art Loss Register,Bolivia,Christopher Marinello,Stolen Art Recovered
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The Art Loss Register Recovers Two Seventeenth Century Colonial Paintings Stolen from a Church in Bolivia
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St. Rose Viterbo |
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Saint Augustin |
In May 2011, over thirteen years after the theft, the Art Loss Register received a request to search its database of stolen art for two of the Bolivian colonial works. The request was submitted by a U.S. art dealer who claimed to have received the paintings on consignment from an elderly American collector. The art historians employed by the Art Loss Register were able to conclusively identify the portraits of ‘Saint Rose of Viterbo’ and ‘Saint Augustin’from several unique areas of damage thanks to the good quality archival photographs taken by the church prior to the theft.
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Bolivian Ambassador Maria Beatriz Souviron Crespo and Christopher Marinello of the Art Loss Register |
In a brief ceremony at the Bolivian Embassy in London on 12 September 2011, the paintings were returned to Ambassador Maria Beatriz Souviron Crespo on behalf of the Bolivian Ministry of Culture.
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