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)
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