Showing posts with label Caravaggio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Caravaggio. Show all posts
February 25, 2021

The art of loss: Mourning "Charley Hill" the intrepid undercover agent who recovered Edvard Munch's "The Scream"

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It's hard to write a second  In Memoriam  in less than one year for someone who spent a goodly part of their life dedicated to the recov...
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October 18, 2019

On the 50th anniversary, a tale of two Caravaggio (thefts)

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50 years ago today, in the evening hours between the 17th and the 18th of October 1969, Caravaggio's magnificent masterpiece, "...
July 7, 2015

The Oratorio of San Lorenzo in Palermo, Sicily: Where a stolen Caravaggio Nativity once hung above the altar

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Street entrance to the Oratorio of San Lorenzo in Palermo by Judge Arthur Tompkins This post continues last week's post &quo...
July 3, 2015

Further Information about Palermo's stolen Caravaggio Nativity painting

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Caravaggio, "Nativity with Saint Lawrence and Saint Francis" For further reading on the ARCA Blog about Caravaggio's &quo...
July 2, 2015

Sicily, Palermo, Cicero, and a missing Caravaggio ...

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Cicero's bust in the Musei Capitolini  ["Cicero - Musei Capitolini"  by Glauco92 - Own work.  Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0...
July 17, 2014

Father Zerafa's recommended reading on Caravaggio's Stolen Palermo Nativity -- and his memory of visiting the painting in the S Lorenzo Chapel

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Father Zerafa receiving an award in the S Lorenzo chapel in Palermo by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor After downloa...
July 12, 2014

Daniel Silva's new fictional book "The Heist" begins with a promise to reveal the fate of Caravaggio's "The Nativity" stolen in 1969 from a church in Palermo

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Caravaggio's Nativity (Palermo) by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief Daniel Silva, author of 14 books feat...
July 11, 2014

Caravaggio to be interned in memorial park on July 18 in Tuscany; however, do the remains found four years ago belong to the artist?

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Caravaggio's Medusa (oil on wood covered with  canvas) at the Uffizi at least since 1631 by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor ...
July 10, 2014

Rev. Dr. Marius Zerafa Spoke on "The Theft and Ransom of Caravaggio’s “St. Jerome Writing”, Co-Cathedral of St. John" at ARCA's Sixth Annual Interdisciplinary Art Crime Conference

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Father Marius Zerafa in Amelia before the conference by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor Amelia, Umbria -- The Reverend Dr. Mari...
June 19, 2014

Panel on "The Vulnerabilities of Sacred Art In Situ: Yesterday and Still Today" for ARCA's Sixth Annual Interdisciplinary Art Crime Conference

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The panel on "The Vulnerabilities of Sacred Art in Situ" will highlight these issues: The Theft and Ransom of Caravaggio’s “St....
June 17, 2014

History of Art Crime: Fabio Isman's 1992 reporting of the discovery of Caravaggio's "The Taking of Christ" in Dublin

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The National Gallery of Ireland's "The Taking of Christ" Caravaggio, 1602 by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor J...
August 25, 2013

ARCA 2013 Conference: James Moore on the stolen Palermo Nativity by Caravaggio; James Bond on the book theft from the Biltmore House; and Judith Harris on the private collecting appetite for looted antiquities

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James "Alex" Bond (left), Rene Du Terroil (rear),  Judith Harris (center), and James Moore (right) by Laura Fandino, ARCA ...
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April 13, 2013

Francisco Goya's 1978 "Witches in Air" is subject of auction house theft in Danny Boyle's fictional film "Trance"

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Francisco Goya's Witches in Air , 1798 Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor In Dann...
May 10, 2012

More confirmation of old news? Pietro Grasso, head of the anti-Mafia crime unit, confirms in May that Caravaggio's Nativity of Palermo eaten by pigs

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Caravaggio's Nativity from Palermo In 2009, Judith Harris wrote for the ARCA blog a post titled " Breaking News on the Stole...
December 18, 2009

Breaking News on the Stolen Caravaggio Nativity

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Caravaggio, Nativity with Saint Lawrence  and Saint Francis, 268 x 197 cm by Judith Harris ROME - No U.S. post office has displa...