Antonello da Messina Art Theft in Sicilian Museum
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.
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Sicilian museum hit by €80 million art theft
Three works by Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina, valued at up to €80 million, were stolen from a museum in Messina, Sicily. Police are investigating the theft, which comes days after Italian authorities recovered three stolen works by Cézanne, Renoir and Matisse.
By FRANCE24
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(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 17 - Four works by Renaissance master Antonello da Messina were stolen during an annual religious festival on the Feast of the Assumption in his native Sicilian city on Saturday. They were some of the only works by Antonello held in Messina. While hundreds of devotees and onlookers in Piazza Duomo were paying homage to the Vara procession, with security measures in place to ensure everything ran smoothly, and the Ferragosto sun had set a couple of hours earlier, the sensati...
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