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...
January 25, 2024

New Convictions and Sentences in the Geneva Museum Heist Saga

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May 31, 2019: Prelude to the Heist The account of the Geneva Museum Heist begins on May 31, 2019, when British national Stewart Ahearne take...
January 21, 2024

Spanish Police Recover 71 Historical Artefacts and Arrest 6 of 10 members of an Art Trafficking Ring

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This week the Spanish newspaper El Pais reported on an important victory by the Brigada de Patrimonio Histórico de la Policía Judicial in th...
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...
January 12, 2024

Three houses of Vittorio Sgarbi searched and the painting attributed to Rutilio Manetti seized.

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Image Credit Vittorio Sgarbi via Facebook This week, the Public Prosecutor's Office at the Court of Macerata initiated an investigation ...
January 7, 2024

The Judgement of St. Paul or The Capture of Saint Peter? A tail of theft and perhaps too many coincidences

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February 2013  Castello di Buriasco A large format oil painting is stolen from the Castello di Buriasco (Pinerolo).  The painting was owned ...
December 31, 2023

Conflict Heritage: The Fate of Qasr al-Basha Palace (قصر الباشا)

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Gaza, situated on a narrow stretch of land along the Mediterranean, was founded during the Canaanite age (3000 BCE), and is considered as on...
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 ...