Showing posts with label Spain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spain. Show all posts
September 11, 2026

From Illicit Export to Public Collection: A Flemish Panel Recovered in Operation Altarpiece Finds a New Home in A Coruña

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One of the cultural objects recovered through Operation Altarpiece , the international investigation ARCA reported on in July 2025 , has now...
August 28, 2026

Update: What We Have Identified as Stolen from the Museo de Villena

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Further information has emerged concerning the 27 August 2026 theft from the Museo Arqueológico Municipal de Villena in Alicante province.  ...
August 27, 2026

Europe’s Museum Gold Rush Claims the Treasure of Villena

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Thieves have struck the Museo Arqueológico Municipal de Villena, known as MUVI, in Alicante province, targeting the Treasure of Villena .  I...
February 5, 2026

The Long Road Home: The Recovery of San Lucas from Astudillo

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Detail of the altarpiece of the main altar of Santa Eugenia In 1927, a black-and-white photograph published in Historia documentada de la vi...
January 8, 2026

The Partridge Chase: How two Roman toddlers led Spain to a trafficking breakthrough

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Today, two extraordinary Roman bronze genre statues, each depicting a young toddler leaning forward with open arms pursuing a partridge were...
November 3, 2025

From Cairo to Barcelona to The Hague: How One Dealer’s Footprint Lingers in Repatriation Cases

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TEFAF Maastricht 2022 Image Credit: ARCA On 15 April 2024 and 19 April 2024 , ARCA published two articles building on an announcement made ...
October 24, 2025

When a stolen Picasso turns out to not be a stolen Picasso

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The privately-owned Pablo Picasso painting, Still Life with Guitar (1919), which purportedly had vanished en route from Madrid or after its ...
October 18, 2025

Picasso’s Still Life with Guitar Vanishes En Route from Madrid to Granada Exhibition

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Still Life with Guitar (1919) by Pablo Ruiz Picasso 12.7cm by 9.8cm Paper, Gouache & Pencil A privately-owned Pablo Picasso painting,  S...
July 3, 2025

These legal requirements are designed to prevent the illicit removal of historically or culturally significant objects, allowing authorities to assess each item’s provenance and value before it crosses borders.

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Following a two-year investigation, culminating in a coordinated effort between Spain’s Guardia Civil and Italy’s Carabinieri Command for th...
April 1, 2025

The Life and Death of Antiquities Trafficker Leonardo Patterson: A Dealer in Stolen History

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1992 photo of Leonardo Patterson with Pope John Paul II  This morning Arthur Brand posted that Leonardo Augustus Patterson, euphemistically ...