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.