Caravaggio picture was stolen from the Odessa museum
 

KIEV, July 31 - RIA Novosti. Painting outstanding Italian artist Caravaggio stolen from the Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern art, said on Thursday informational site of Odessa.

Apparently, some amateur - to sell such a thing is impossible.

qwerty, under the order, but the meaning? Although the cost kolosalnaya, and may have long been sold, and hung a copy-forgery, movies almost every day on this topic show.

Painting Caravaggio, The Taking of Christ in custody, stolen from the Museum of Western and Eastern Art in Odessa two years ago, found in Germany. This June 26 Itar-Tass General Directorate of Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Odessa region.
According to law enforcement agencies, last Friday in Germany, were detained three citizens of Ukraine, who had discovered the stolen masterpiece. Currently, solved the question of their extradition and the return of the painting.
"Taking Christ into custody, or Kiss of Judas", the only work of Italian masters, preserved in the collections of Ukrainian, a thief stole a lone July 31, 2008. The attacker got into the museum through a window, cut out a picture from the frame and went through the roof. The crime was, as the museum almost entirely absent protection system. Meanwhile, the stolen masterpiece estimated to be worth up to $ 100 million.
The canvas, which was stored in Odessa, is one of the options paintings and dates from about 1598 a year. A well-known version of "Taking Christ into custody" refers to 1602 and is located in the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin. An early version of the purchased in Paris, the Russian ambassador to France and gave the Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich. Following the revolution picture was given to the Odessa Art School, from which came to the Museum of Western and Oriental art.
(Lenta.Ru)

I do not want to offend their Ukrainian colleagues, but I think in the Ukraine are not processes damages caused to theft and waste of the massive museum values and without the powers that are not cost ....

Ukraine - spelled with a capital ...
And squander museum valuables on only in Ukraine but also in any other country in the former Soviet Union including Russia .. ..

Quite fresh in the memory of theft in the Hermitage.

You mean stealing from the store?
But there have been stolen directly from the exposure of the hall.
In March 2001, an unknown attacker cut in broad daylight from a frame picture of the French artist Jean Leon Gerome "Pool in the Harem. Then it is true canvas someone threw understood, apparently, that will not be able to sell.

Thank you, laugh with you my story CPRF!
Why is this mysterious stranger chose this institution to transfer the national heritage :cool:?! What was his motivation? Expropriation?
I wanted to fix the old communist truth "art belongs to the people" and the Communist Party and the people - are the same, then art must belong to the Communist Party? Saw a story about a grave moral life of the "oppressed women of the East" or guided by other reasons ?!:)

Kidnappers paintings by Caravaggio, "The Kiss of Judas" will be extradited from Germany. , Told journalists today Interior Minister Anatoly Mogilev. He said that in Germany, was found stolen Caravaggio painting in Ukraine worth about 100 million dollars "After examination in Berlin painting will be returned to the Ukraine, and extradited to the kidnappers," - he said. A. Mogilev explained that on 25 June 2010. Berlin arrested three citizens of Ukraine and one - in Germany, who found and paintings of famous masters. Their accomplices are also detained in Ukraine. "Searches conducted in 1920, proved their involvement in the 20 burglaries in the territory of Ukraine", - said the minister. He noted that the group has operated for several years and was engaged in theft of valuables. The attacker found an expensive car, more than 2 thousand mobile phones.
Painting Caravaggio, "The Kiss of Judas" was stolen from the Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art in August of 2008. As expected, it flown to Germany for sale.
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In the case of the abduction of Caravaggio detained 20 Ukrainians
 
In the case of the abduction of Caravaggio's paintings from the Museum of Odessa in the Ukraine were arrested 20 people suspected of belonging to an international gang of kidnappers pictures, reports Associated Press.
Of course the painting "The Taking of Christ in custody" (or "Kiss of Judas"), as previously reported, was found June 25 in Berlin during the joint German-Ukrainian operations involving counter-terrorism unit GSG 9. Now this information was confirmed by the police in Germany. The four suspects - three Ukrainians and a Russian - were arrested while trying to sell the picture. Citizens of Ukraine awaits extradition, Russians will be judged Berlin, where, according to some sources, he has a home.

Critics have already confirmed the authenticity of paintings, according to Berliner Kourier. The picture has been damaged: criminals unsuccessful canvas, and there were traces of folds. The restoration will take several months. (...)/Lenta.ru

Foreign experts have declared "Odessa Caravaggio 'copy
 

The painting "The Taking of Christ in custody, stolen in Odessa and was found in Berlin, was not painted by Caravaggio, and a copy of the work, preserved in the National Gallery of Ireland. This writes the German news agency DPA, with reference to the representative of the Dublin gallery. According to her, to use the term "forgery" it would be wrong: copying the work of master artist trained by his art, and not trying to deceive anyone.
From an Irish art historian solidarity Caravaggio specialist from Berlin, Roberto Contini (Roberto Contini): in his view, the cost of finding work - from 200 to 500 thousand euros, not more. Earlier media reports appeared that the painting is worth millions and even tens of millions of dollars. "This is a good copy, but it does not compare with brilliant originals are located in Dublin," - said Contini.
Note that if the picture is indeed a copy, it was made more than 200 years ago, since the end of XVIII century original, now based in Ireland, shall be forfeited. He was found only in 1990.
Earlier media reported that the Odessa "Christ" has long been considered a copy of Dublin, but in the 1950's art Xenia Malitskaya found that the picture is also painted by Caravaggio. Moreover, the date of creation of Odessa linen in the media was called in 1598 (Irish Caravaggio is dated 1602 year).
In early July, the director of the Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art Vladimir Ostrovsky said that the painting - a copy by hand of Caravaggio, "transfer" Looking from Odessa. " He noted that the picture they took him to major exhibitions in Germany, Italy and Spain. Prior to this, with her team of leading restorers of Ukraine, carried out their cleaning was approved by the museum committee. "Then this 'duck' or a dirty rumor that is supposedly a copy subsided," - said Ostrovsky.
The picture was kidnapped in 2008, and found at the end of June 2010. German police have detained three Ukrainians and one Russian, when they tried to sell the painting. In Ukraine, the same case detained 20 people suspected of aiding a gang of art thieves. Thieves caused serious damage to the picture, a poorly folded her canvas needed restoration.
(Lenta.Ru)