Art Institute of Chicago returns ancient sculpture after learning it was stolen

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Art Institute of Chicago returns ancient Nepali sculpture, after researchers learned it had been stolen

A 12th century Nepali sculpture that had regularly been on display at the Art Institute of Chicago is being returned to its native country — after new research found that the object had originally been stolen, the museum said Monday.The sacred sculpture, "Buddha Sheltered by the Serpent King Muchalinda," measures about 17.5 inches by 13 inches and was carved from schist, a dark metamorphic rock. As part of "ongoing research into the provenance o…

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A seventeenth-century painting by Pieter Brueghel the Younger that was stolen from a Polish museum in 1974 has surfaced in the Netherlands after fifty years. Museum Gouda exhibited the artwork – the work of a peasant woman – without realizing that it is on the ‘most wanted’ stolen art list of Poland. Behind this discovery lies an exciting story, which crime journalist Mick van Wely tells in this new episode of the Telegraafkwartier.

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Art Institute of Chicago returns ancient sculpture after learning it was stolen

A 12th century Nepali sculpture that had regularly been on display at the Art Institute of Chicago is being returned to its native country — after new research found that the object had originally been stolen, the museum said Monday. The sacred sculpture, “Buddha Sheltered by the Serpent King Muchalinda,” measures about 17.5 inches by 13 inches and was carved from schist, a dark metamorphic rock. As part of “ongoing research into the provenance …

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A painting that was stolen from the National Museum in the Polish city of Gdansk in 1974 has been found in a museum in Gouda. This was confirmed by Museum Gouda and art detective Arthur Brand after a report in De Telegraaf. It is a painting by the Flemish Pieter Brueghel the Younger, son of artist Pieter Brueghel the Elder. The work has a diameter of only 17 centimetres and dates from the 17th century. It depicts a peasant woman with a bucket of…

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Police, art sleuth crack case of Brueghel stolen in Poland in 1974

THE HAGUE - With the help of a well-known art detective and arts magazine journalists, Dutch police say they have cracked the case of the mysterious disappearance of a Brueghel painting from a Polish museum 50 years ago.

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Bruegel painting stolen from museum in Poland