Recovered art

Fifteenth-century Madonna returned to Siena cathedral museum

Siena, Italy · Source report date:

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Fifteenth-century Madonna returned to Siena cathedral museum
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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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Rembrandt, Self-Portrait (1630), Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

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