Showing posts with label The Palermo Nativity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Palermo Nativity. Show all posts
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...
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 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 14, 2012

REVISITING BOOKS: Peter Watson on the Palermo Nativity in the 1984 book "The Caravaggio Conspiracy"

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The Palermo Nativity by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor Part one of three Repeated rumors of the destruction of C...