Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

Recovery of Painting by Albrecht Dürer Leads Italian Police to Various Pieces of Stolen Art

December 20, 2010 by All Art News  
Filed under Art Crime & Legal, Featured

ROME.- Sixteen paintings that had been stolen at various times from private homes and churches will be back by Christmas, to their rightful owners. The works of art seized by police in September for the protection of cultural heritage have been recovered from the house of a Roman designer and ‘at large were reported stolen to the public prosecutor of Rome. In his house were found and photographed 180 paintings from various periods, purchased in markets and fairs across Italy, [...]

ROMA: The Road to Contemporary Art Offers 8,000 Square Meters of Art

ROME.- Mr. Umberto Croppi, Councilor to the Cultural Policies and Communication of the Municipality or Rome, Mr. Roberto Casiraghi, Director of ROMA – The Road to Contemporary Art and Mr. Achille Bonito Oliva, curator of the third edition of exhibition Cose mai viste (Things You Never Saw), are presenting the international fair ROMA – The Road to Contemporary Art In the new unique venue of Macro Testaccio, which is hosting in the space of over 8,000 square meters, articulated in [...]