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Four significant Renaissance artworks by 15th-century master Antonello da Messina were stolen from a museum in Messina, Sicily, during a national holiday. Experts suggest the paintings are so valuable they would be impossible to sell on the open market.
Investigators are exploring the possibility that the Antonello da Messina heist may have been an inside job. The theft of the artwork is under close scrutiny.
Four priceless Renaissance paintings by Antonello da Messina were stolen from a museum in Sicily during an Italian national holiday. Thieves bypassed alarm systems to carry out the heist.
A review of Italy's most sensational art thefts highlights a long list of unresolved cases, including the 1974 theft of Antonello da Messina's 'Ecce Homo' and Giovanni Bellini's 'Madonna with Child'.
Claudio Strinati, the new president of the Superior Council for Cultural Heritage, analyzed the 'southern question' regarding art security in Italy, following the theft of an Antonello da Messina masterpiece.
A Sicilian museum in Messina was hit by an €80 million art theft, with four works by Antonello da Messina stolen, though two were later recovered on a wall.
Fiorella Sricchia Santoro, a leading Italian art historian, was interviewed following the theft of an artwork by Antonello da Messina, lamenting the grave loss of a piece that had even survived an earthquake.
Residents of Messina are campaigning for the return of Antonello da Messina's "Ecce Homo," a masterpiece secured by the Italian government, to its city of origin.
Four paintings by Renaissance master Antonello da Messina were stolen in Messina, Sicily, with suspicions of mafia involvement, potentially for blackmail. Two of the artworks were later found discarded outside a museum.
Four 'priceless' Renaissance paintings by master Antonello da Messina were stolen from a museum in Sicily, Italy. The heist occurred during local festivities, which may have provided a distraction for the thieves.
Four Renaissance artworks by Antonello da Messina were stolen from a museum in Messina, Sicily, during a holiday. The valuable paintings, over five centuries old, were taken in a nighttime heist.
Sicilians are campaigning for the return of Antonello da Messina’s masterpiece 'Ecce Homo,' arguing it belongs with them after much of Messina's cultural memory was lost in a 1908 earthquake.