Article: $6 million art theft called amateur job

Article: `Genteel' larceny - art theft - on rise
Chicago Sun-Times;  March 6, 1988 ;     572 words ... ... million, making it the biggest art theft in New York history. The most ... panels by the 15th century Italian Renaissance master Fra Angelico worth $4 million ... impossible to sell at its real value. Art theft, long romanticized as a genteel ...

Article: Art theft, smuggling big business in Europe.(Arts)
The Washington Times;  December 21, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... 22 works that possibly include authentic paintings by modern painters Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro and Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli. The works were confiscated from residences in Pamplona, Spain. Four persons were charged ...

Article: Monk discovers prints by Renaissance master ...
AP Worldstream;  August 8, 2002 ;     351 words ... ... Dateline: VIENNA, Austria A Benedictine monk in southern Austria said Thursday he has discovered four prints by Renaissance master Albrecht Duerer in the attic of his monastery in southern Austria. Father Gerfried Sitar said he came across ...

Article: Still enigmatic; Fra Carnevale.(Fra Carnevale: an old ...
The Economist (US);  December 11, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... only in October, the painted banner of a religious fellowship was freshly attributed to Raphael. But a lost Renaissance master? An exhibition at the Brera gallery in Milan, which transfers to New York's Metropolitan Museum on February ...

Article: National Gallery of Scotland to acquire its first drawing by ...
PR Newswire;  February 4, 1987 ;     700+ words ... ... Scotland, Feb. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Gallery of Scotland is to acquire its first drawing by the Italian Renaissance master Raphael (1483-1520). "Kneeling Female Nude", from the Duke of Devonshire's collection at Chatsworth ...

Article: A `New' Michelangelo? Statue in N.Y. Mansion Attributed to ...
The Washington Post;  January 24, 1996 ;     629 words ... ... belonging to the French government is believed to be a long-lost work by Michelangelo -- the only sculpture by the Renaissance master in America. The statue, housed in the rotunda of an elegant Fifth Avenue building on Manhattan's Upper East ...

Article: Tuscany's Renaissance Master; Celebrating the ...
The Washington Post;  June 28, 1992 ;     700+ words ...While celebrations are being prepared this year on both sides of the Atlantic to commemorate one Italian's great discovery, many art lovers in Italy are honoring another countryman who coincidentally died the very day that Columbus set foot in the New World. In honor of the 500th anniversary of his