Showing posts with label Sicily. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sicily. Show all posts
August 10, 2023

So one particular (Sicilian) looting "mafia" was actually a Mafia.

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Interrogated by Palermo prosecutor Maurizio De Lucia and deputy prosecutor Paolo Guido, shortly after his January 16th arrest by the Carabin...
October 10, 2018

Trial dates tentatively set for December 2018 for 19 "Operation Demetra" defendants

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Judges from the Tribunale del Riesame di Caltanissetta, the court of first instance with general jurisdiction in criminal matters withi...
August 8, 2018

Sicilian judges reject appeal made by William Veres

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Screenshot of William Veres from the documentary “The Hunt for Transylvanian Gold Judges from the Tribunale del Riesame di Caltanisset...
July 8, 2018

On the trail of looted antiquities, Carabinieri arrest another individual in Sicily.

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Image Credit: Carabinieri  An ancient amphora and 25 terracotta fragments of ancient statues, some believed to date as far back as the...
July 6, 2018

More details on Operation Demetra

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Image Credit:  Carabinieri TPC As has been noted to be the case in the past, Sicilian trafficking cases sometimes have organized crime ...
July 4, 2018

Operation Demetra: The Trafficking of Sicilian Archaeological Treasures

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Image Credit: Carabinieri TPC Updated 13:00 GMT+1 In a press conference held today, at 11:00 at the Public Prosecutor's Office...
November 17, 2017

A Sicilian Mafia Primer to Organized Crime Members with apparent ties to Gianfranco Becchina

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This is a list of mafia-tied individuals and cooperating mafia-tied individuals authorities have stated have associations with, or wh...
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...
May 11, 2013

Two years after the Stolen Aphrodite is returned, the Getty Museum Exhibits Objects from Sicily with the cooperation of the Italian Government

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About two years ago, The Getty Museum returned a Greek statue (formerly known as Aphrodite) to Sicily and appointed James Cuno as chief...
May 18, 2012

REVISITING BOOKS: An Earthquake Shatters Expectations in The Caravaggio Conspiracy

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by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA blog editor Peter Watson writes in The Caravaggio Conspiracy that in 1980 when he was trying to n...
May 16, 2012

REVISITING BOOKS: Watson's "The Caravaggio Conspiracy" and the motive for stealing the Palermo Nativity

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Agrigento Ephebe by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA blog editor Part two of three In the 1984 book, The Caravaggio Conspiracy...
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...
May 29, 2011

ARCA Blog Interviews Jason Felch, co-author of "Chasing Aphrodite"

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Getty Goddess now home/ Chasing Aphrodite by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief ARCA Blog: How did you feel, b...