by Edgar Tijhuis | 3 Dec 2018
On Monday, Italy’s Cassation Court rejected the J. Paul Getty Museum’s appeal against the lower court ruling in Pesaro, issued by Magistrate Giacomo Gasparini. That earlier ruling, issued on June 08, 2018, was in favour of the prosecution’s request for seizure...
by Edgar Tijhuis | 29 Nov 2018
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:...
by Edgar Tijhuis | 28 Nov 2018
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...
by Edgar Tijhuis | 20 Nov 2018
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...
by Save Art | 18 Nov 2018
On October 16, 2012 Dutch police confirmed that seven paintings had been stolen, shortly after 3 a.m. local time, from the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam. The paintings which were taken, Pablo Picasso’s Tete d’Arlequin, Henri Matisse’s La Liseuse en...
by Edgar Tijhuis | 30 Oct 2018
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...
