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Museum Theft: Pinacoteca Comunale di Faenza - Faenza, Italy
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Vestibule, Maestro of Faenza Sec. XIII Crucifixion and descent into limbo panel painting, 35x28 cm. + frame 15 cm., N. inv. 98 Image Credit: Pinacoteca Comunale di Faenza |
Discovered missing on Thursday morning, March 01, 2018, a small panel painting, dating back to the 1200s attributed to the Maestro of Faenza has been reported stolen from the Pinacoteca Comunale di Faenza.
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According to a televised report given by Claudio Casadio, the director of the Pinacoteca, the theft was discovered during a morning walkthrough by personnel on Monday who discovered the empty frame and backboard mounting discarded in the gallery where the artwork had been hung.
Given the panel painting's small size, the artwork may have been hidden under the thief's winter clothing at some point during museum opening hours though the date of the theft itself still unclear.
This is the third theft of sacred art in Italy to have occured in a one week period. All three thefts have occured in the region of Emilia-Romagna.
During an early morning religious service at the Chiesa del Suffragio in Rimini a thief or thieves stole the crown and veil of a Madonna, Our Lady of Sorrows, a statue dating back to the 1700s from the Church’s main nave. The theft apparently occurred while mass was taking place in a smaller adjoining side chapel.
An almost identical theft took also was carried out at the Cathedral of Cervia, in the province of Ravenna, where the crown adorning a statue of Our Lady of Fire also disappeared.
Two of these thefts, the one in Faenza and Cervia both occurred in the province of Ravenna. The third theft in Rimini occured in a coastal town in the same region (Emilia-Romagna).
Director Claudio Casadio, the director of the Pinacoteca Comunale di Faenza believes the theft from his museum gallery is indisputably a theft to order, given the object is well documented in public records and would be unsellable on the licit art market. If his assumption is correct, and coupled with these other two thefts, the string of the events seem to illustrate an interesting organizational structure to a coordinated series of thefts, likely committed to sustain the black market for religious art.
The theft is being investigated by the Carabinieri.
The theft is being investigated by the Carabinieri.
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