Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts
November 7, 2024

From Gallery to 'Washing Machine': How One Art Dealer’s Love for Banksy Served as Cover for an International Drug Ring

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On 11 May 2022, officers involved in the Eurojust 'Arkan' operation, assisting in the investigation begun by the District Anti-Mafia...
March 17, 2024

Girolamini Library Theft - Convictions and acquittals in the network of every bookworm's antichrist

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Last week, after some eleven years and over one hundred and twenty hearings, the Court of Naples, presided over by Maurizio Conte, announced...
March 8, 2024

Museum Theft: One million euros worth of jewellery stolen from a temporary exhibit at the Vittoriale degli Italiani Museum in Italy

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Forty-nine jewellery pieces, created by twentieth century sculptor, painter, and Italian partisan, Umberto Mastroianni have disappeared duri...
January 27, 2024

Italy Takes Action: Preventive Seizure Decree Targets Stolen Books from Girolamini Library and a list of Hot Texts

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Italy's Ministry of Culture, in collaboration with the Public Prosecutor's Office at the Court of Naples, has announced a significan...
December 3, 2023

Claiming Legacies: Italy, Germany, and the Post-WWII Ownership Battle for the Discobolus

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Image Credit: Exhibition Arte Liberata 1937-1947: Masterpieces Saved from War. This past week Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper stir...
September 6, 2022

Museum restitutions are more than just the sum of their numbers

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Image Credit - HSI - ICE On 21 February 2006 the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Italian government signed an agreement under which the M...