In Italy, found a stolen 30 years ago now Durer
Italian police found a stolen 1972 painting by Albrecht Dürer's "Suicide of Cleopatra," according to Artdaily. Cloth discovered by accident - a collector who wanted to buy it, went to the police asking them to check the origin of the painting. When testing revealed that it was stolen.
Initial investigation, police learned that the painting was kept in the house of a certain designer in Rome. His entire collection consisted of about 180 works, and as it turned out during a police inspection, 16 of them were stolen, mostly from churches and private collections.
Dürer's painting, in particular, was stolen from the Palazzo Piccolomini in Pienza. Like the theft, all the rest were committed in the central part of Italy. The total value of stolen art is about one million euros.
(Lenta.Ru)
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