Seventeenth-century Penitent Mary Magdalene recovered in Munich
Carabinieri recovered a seventeenth-century oil on panel in Munich after identifying it in a Bavarian auction catalogue in 2016. The painting was stolen from a Milan home in August 1975. Milan judicial authorities ordered its return to the heirs of the person who reported the theft. Image of the recovered work published by la Repubblica.
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