Showing posts with label art theft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art theft. Show all posts
March 4, 2024

New developments in Spain's theft case of five artworks by Francis Bacon

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  In the summer of 2015 thieves entered a five-story building on the Plaza de la Encarnación —an affluent area in the center of Madrid near ...
January 18, 2024

Breakthrough in Decade-Long Art Heist: Stolen Chagall and Picasso Paintings Recovered in Antwerp Raid

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In a stunning turn of events, two valuable paintings, L’homme en prière by Marc Chagall and a version of  Tête by Pablo Picasso, stolen fr...
December 20, 2023

And the epigraphic fragment of the marble lararium lived happily ever after...

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Our story begins at the house of Lucius Caecilius Iucundus , a banker from Pompeii, whose residence was found buried under a blanket of ash ...
September 12, 2023

Vincent Van Gogh's stolen painting, The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring, has been recovered.

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After extensive work on the part of the Dutch National Police and a private investigator, authorities have announced that Vincent Van Gogh&#...
September 27, 2021

Three convictions and one acquittal, the number of museum thefts Nils Menara, AKA Nils M., has been charged with.

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Nils Menara, AKA Nils M., has been sentenced to 8 years in prison by the Lelystad court in the Netherlands for the theft of two artworks: Vi...
May 25, 2021

Arundel Castle Theft: Among the losses, Mary, Queen of Scots rosary beads, once carried at her execution

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Execution Of Mary Queen Of Scots, 8 February 1587 by William Aubrey   On May 21, at approximately 10:30 pm, an alarm sounded at the medieval...
April 20, 2021

Restitution: Manhattan and US authorities hand over 33 artefacts stolen from the the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

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Image Credit - HSI ICE Afghanistan, one of the world’s poorest countries, has been plagued by war and corruption.  That vulnerability has lo...
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Restitution: Manhattan and US authorities hand over three 13 - 16th century CE artefacts stolen from the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal.

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One week after its last restitution, on the first of April, the Consulate General of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal in New York re...

Restitution: Manhattan and US authorities hand over two Kandyan Period artefacts depicting the Lord Buddha in Abhaya Mudra stolen from the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka

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As can be seen, by the restitutions accomplished via Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance's team over the last month, New York continues...
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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January 20, 2021

Restitution: Belgian authorities hand over a 1st century BCE Roman statue stolen from Rome in 2011

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Today, authorities from the General Directorate of the Economic Inspection of the SPF Economie in Belgium turned over a lifesize 1st century...
January 11, 2021

New Zealand Police want help in finding the owners of recovered stolen artworks

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Image Credit:  Waikato Police Law enforcement authorities with the Waikato Police have posted photos of numerous artworks to their Facebook ...