2018-11-29 | Uncategorized
Entering Vienna’s oldest auction house, the Dorotheum, just after sunset, three well-dressed men in jackets and coats, working in tandem are believed to have made off with a landscape painted by Pierre-Auguste Renoir titled Golfe, Mer, Falaises Vertes (English:...
2018-11-28 | Uncategorized
The team of the Carabinieri del Nucleo Tutela Patrimonio Culturale (TPC) in Palermo, under the command of Magg. Luigi Mancuso, has proven once again that patience makes perfect when it comes to the recovery of stolen art. While the squad has not yet recovered...
2018-11-20 | Uncategorized
PURCHASED ACQ NUMBER DESCRIPTION 29 February 1992 292.AA.10 Statue of Zeus Enthroned On October 27, 2018 a first century BCE, marble statue of Zeus, seated on his throne, finally moved to its permanent home, the...
2018-10-30 | Uncategorized
In March 2015, the Iraqi government formally announced that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIL had purposefully destroyed much of the Northwest Palace of King Ashurnasirpal II as part of their iconoclastic program of obliterating preislamic cultural...
2018-10-29 | Uncategorized
In a ceremony held at the San Pietro Apostolo in Cavenago d’Adda, Italy, parishioners celebrate the return of the 17th century painting “San Carlo Borromeo in Contemplation” by early Baroque artist Daniele Crespi. Stolen twenty-six years ago, on...
2018-10-27 | Uncategorized
The Institute of Art and Law will host a seminar this winter to examine the subject of Jewellery and Law. Date/Time: January 15, 2019 from 9:30 am Venue: Clyde & Co, St Botolph Building, 138 Houndsditch, London, EC3A 7AR, United Kingdom Fee: £144 (incl. VAT) –...
2018-10-24 | Uncategorized
Following a formal request by the Deputy Prosecutor for the District Anti-Mafia Directorate Carlo Marzella, preliminary reexamination judge of of the Court of Palermo, Antonella Consiglio, has dismissed the charge of mafia association against the Castelvetrano...
2018-10-18 | Uncategorized
Who studies art crime? ARCA’s Postgraduate program in Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection is now accepting applications. Early applications will be accepted through 30 November subject to census limitations. In 2009, ARCA started the very first...
2018-10-13 | Uncategorized
Image Credit: ARCA From Left to Right – Brigadier General Fabrizio Parrulli, Commander of the Italian Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, Britain’s Minister of State for the Armed Forces Mark Lancaster, General of Army Corps...
2018-10-10 | Uncategorized
Judges from the Tribunale del Riesame di Caltanissetta, the court of first instance with general jurisdiction in criminal matters within the territory of Caltanissetta, Sicily, have set a tentative date for trial of December 2018 for 19 of the individuals connected to...
