Antonio Solario’s Madonna and Child returns to Belluno after a 1973 museum theft
The Madonna and Child by Antonio Solario returned to Belluno’s civic museums on 21 July 2025, more than fifty years after the theft. Its last private possessor voluntarily surrendered the painting to Carabinieri at the Italian Embassy in London. The handover photograph was published by Rai News and credited to ANSA.
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