Art restitution

Carelli painting and illuminated manuscript material returned to Italy

Washington, United States; Naples, Italy · Source report date:

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Illuminated manuscript fragment returned in the same ceremony as the Carelli painting.
Illuminated manuscript fragment returned in the same ceremony as the Carelli painting. Image source ↗
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Italy’s foreign ministry reported a handover of a nineteenth-century Carelli painting and fourteenth-century illuminated manuscript material. The painting had been stolen in Naples in 2001 and traced through a Pennsylvania auction.

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Rembrandt, Self-Portrait (1630), Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

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