Rare Renaissance paintings by Antonello da Messina stolen from Sicilian museum

Four works were taken during public holiday, the day after Italian police recovered paintings by Cézanne, Renoir and Matisse Four of the most important works of art by the 15th-century Renaissance master Antonello da Messina were stolen during a national holiday from a museum in the Sicilian port city of Messina. Thieves gained access to the regional museum of Messina, or MuMe, on Saturday evening, possibly capitalising on attention being focused on La Vara, a huge religious festival that tak...

By Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo

Four Antonello da Messina works stolen in Renaissance painter's hometown - The Straits Times

Four Antonello da Messina works stolen in Renaissance painter's hometown  The Straits Times

Thieves steal Renaissance artworks in Sicilian museum heist on Italian holiday

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