Italy recovers Renoir, Cezanne and Matisse works stolen from museum

Thieves steal Renaissance artworks in Sicilian museum heist

MILAN (AP) Thieves stole four works attributed to the Sicilian Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina from a regional museum in the Sicilian city of Messina on the Italian Ferragosto holiday, the news agency LaPresse reported Sunday.

Thieves steal four ‘extraordinary’ Renaissance artworks in Sicilian museum heist

The theft comes just days after police in the northern Italian city of Parma announced that they had recovered three stolen artworks by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse.

A good – and bad – week for Italy's art police and museum security

On Friday, Italian police said they'd recovered three paintings stolen from a museum near the city of Parma. By Saturday night, thieves in Sicily had made off with four more masterpieces.

Italy recovers stolen Renoir, Cezanne, Matisse artworks, detains 5

Italian authorities recovered three artworks by Renoir, Cezanne and Matisse worth millions of euros that were stolen earlier this year from a private...

Five arrested in connection to stolen works by Cézanne, Renoir and Matisse, prosecutors say

ROME — It took thieves less than three minutes, police said, to make off with three artworks by Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Henri Matisse worth millions of dollars during a bold nighttime heist in March. The post Five arrested in connection to stolen works by Cézanne, Renoir and Matisse, prosecutors say appeared first on West Hawaii Today.