Fifteenth-century Madonna returned to Siena cathedral museum

Carabinieri returned a Madonna and Child attributed to Lippo d’Andrea to the cathedral museum, where it had been stolen in 1968. Investigators matched auction photographs with the stolen-art database. ANSA reported that the picture had reappeared at a Swiss auction in 1999. Image: ANSA.
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