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 ...
December 17, 2023
Lost Time, Found Art: The Decade-Long Pursuit of Restitution for Antiquities Smuggled by Douglas Latchford at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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In 2013 the Metropolitan Museum of Art restituted two,10th-century, Koh Ker stone statues, known as the “Kneeling Attendants” to Cambodia. ...
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