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A Picasso painting stolen in 1961 has resurfaced, and now the Guggenheim wants it back

A painting by Pablo Picasso stolen more than sixty years ago has been recovered, and now the Guggenheim Museum in New York wants it back. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation has filed a lawsuit in the New York State Supreme Court to secure the retu...
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Why the theft of Antonello da Messina’s panels is such a huge loss

The theft of the two panels by Antonello da Messina from the “Maria Accascina” Regional Museum in Messina—the MuMe—is not merely the theft of two priceless works of art. It is an incident that directly affects an essential part of Western...
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Farewell to Lorenzo Quilici, a leading figure in Italian archaeology and a scholar of the ancient landscape

Italian archaeology has lost one of its most authoritative and prominent figures with the passing of Lorenzo Quilici, a leading scholar who dedicated his entire life to the study of ancient topography, road networks, the evolution of settlements, and...
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The Theft of Antonello da Messina: What We Know So Far

What do we know so far about the theft of Antonello da Messina’s panels from the “Maria Accascina” Regional Museum (MuMe) in Messina? Two panels were stolen from the museum: the central panel of the San Gregorio Polyptych, depicting the M...
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Theft of Antonello da Messina’s Works: AStArte Highlights Security Flaws

The theft of the three surviving panels from the San Gregorio Polyptych and the double-sided panel by Antonello da Messina did not come as a surprise tothe National Association of Art Historians, which issued a statement on the matter. President Silv...
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Farewell to Mary Heilmann, a painter of contemporary American abstract art

She passed away on August 14, 2026, at the age of 86, following complications from a fall, Mary Heilmann, one of the most significant figures in contemporary American abstract painting, whose body of work helped profoundly renew the relationship betw...
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Viterbo: The Marian Chapel of the Former Church of Santa Maria delle Fortezze Has Been Restored—New Discoveries

On the Feast of the Assumption, new and surprising discoveries are drawing attention back tothe former church of Santa Maria delle Fortezze in Viterbo, formerly known as Santa Maria Annunziata and later as San Francesco di Paola. The church was built...
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Theft at the Regional Museum of Messina: Two Works by Antonello da Messina Have Already Been Recovered

Two of the works by Antonello da Messina that were stolen on the evening of Saturday, August 15, around 9:50 p.m., from the MuMe—“Accascina” Regional Museum in Messina, have already been recovered. The works are panels depictingSt. Benedict andSt. Gr...
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Serious Theft in Messina: Paintings by Antonello da Messina Stolen from the Regional Museum

A very serious theft occurred on the evening of Saturday, August 15, at the “Accascina” Regional Museum in Messina. Unknown individuals managed to break into the museum’s galleries by bypassing the alarm system and the security measures i...
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Works by Cézanne, Renoir, and Matisse stolen from the Magnani Rocca have been found in a storage room in Parma

New details are emerging about the theft of three works by Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Henri Matisse stolen on the night of March 22–23 from the Magnani Rocca Foundation in Mamiano di Traversetolo ( Parma) and recovered today ...
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The three works stolen from the Magnani Rocca Foundation last March have been recovered

The three works of art that had been stolen from the Magnani-Rocca Foundation in Mamiano di Traversetolo ( Parma) on the night of March 22–23 have been recovered: they included a painting by Paul Cézanne, *Tasse et plat de cerises* ( “S...
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Van Gogh and His Signatures: The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam Reveals What They Tell Us in Its First Systematic Study

Over the course of his ten-year artistic career, Vincent van Gogh signed a surprisingly small number of paintings: of his 840 known works, only 133 bear his signature, accounting for about 15%. This finding comes from the first systematic study of th...
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The Vittoriale is launching an Art Bonus project to repair storm damage. Estimated cost: over 5 million euros

Following the exceptional weather event that struck the Vittoriale degli Italiani monumental complex in Gardone Riviera on July 17, 2026, the Foundation has launched a new project underthe Art Bonus program, with the goal of raising funds for restora...
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U.S.: Federal Appeals Court Halts Trump's Ballroom Project at the White House

, a federal appeals court—the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit—ruled last Friday that U. S. President Donald Trump, does not have the authority to build the $400 millionballroom within the White House complex without congre...
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Three works by Banksy cost London taxpayers nearly 175,000 euros

What about the works Banksy has left on the streets of England in recent years? From 2024 to the present, three works on public property by the famous Bristol-based street artist have cost British taxpayers 150,000 pounds—about 175,000 euros—for remo...
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Sicily: The Region Will Add the Position of Art Historian to Its Staff

TheSicilian“ ” Region will include the position of“ ” (Historian of Art) inthe administration’s new“ ” Professional Matrix. This was reported by the *Gazzetta del Sud*, after AStArte—the National Association of Art Historians—together with SISC...
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