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The "One Hundred Missing Objects"
Series
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Stolen
objects identified thanks to Looting in Europe.
Thanks
to Looting in Europe in the series "One
Hundred Missing Objects", published in
2001, the following objects appearing in this work
have been identified and restituted.
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- Tabernacle (Italy)
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Gilt wooden tabernacle (see the image) , listed on the page 90 of the publication One Hundred Missing Objects. Looting in Europe (ICOM, 2001).
This liturgical object which had been stolen on 5 July 1996 from the church of San Antiono Abate, in the province of Amatrice (Italy), was found during a house search carried out by the Carabinieri at a private residence in March 2008.
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Sculpture of Evangelist Mark (Czech Republic)
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on p.103 of Looting in Europe a late 17th
century sculpture of the Evangelist Mark was restituted
on 3rd April 2001 to the Czech Republic.
In connection with the work on the publication Looting
in Europe, this sculpture was identified at the beginning
of the year 2000 by experts from the State Institute for
Preservation of Historic Monuments in the auction catalogue
of the Dorotheum in Vienna for their sale of 10th
October 1999 - where it was indeed sold.
The same company later included the work once again in
its auction catalogue of 23rd March 2001, and
that time it was identified from the catalogue by an employee
of the Diocesan Conservation Centre at Prague Archbishopric.
Having received this information, the Ministry of Culture
in cooperation with the Czech Embassy in Vienna immediately
undertook steps so that this precious work of art might
be restituted. After these measures, and thanks to the
understanding of the Dorotheum auction house, the sculpture
was returned on 3rd April 2001 to its original
owner - the St. Vitus Church in Jemnice, Czech Republic.
- Sculpture of Virgin and Child (Czech
Republic)- A
sculpture of Virgin and Child dated late 15th
century, was restituted to the Ministry of the Czech Republic
on 25th May 2001. This sculpture had been stolen
in October 1992 from the Church of the Nativity of the
Virgin Mary, Touzim (Czech Republic) and published on
page 97 of Looting in Europe.
Thanks to close cooperation with the Czech Police, the
sculpture was returned by a Czech antique dealer on 25th
May 2001.
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A wooden angel (France)
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wooden angel stolen from the church of Saint-Pierre d'Humbert
(France) in 1977 was found in Holland by French police
officers in March 2003. The 13th-century carving was listed
as a historical monument under French law and was one
of the objects described in the ICOM publication One
Hundred Missing Objects. Looting in Europe (p.47).
In addition, a 16th-century statuette of the Wise Man
Balthazar, which was stolen from the altarpiece of a French
church in 1967 and had been in the keeping of a Belgian
state museum for several years, was officially returned
by the Belgian government on 1 July 2002, in line with
the ICOM Code of Ethics for Museums. The case of
this statuette was mentioned in one of the introductions
to Looting in Europe (p.19).
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- Painting - Madonna and Child with
Saints (Italy)-
A 16th century Italian painting published on
page 80 of the ICOM publication Looting in Europe
was recovered on 25 September 2002.
This polyptych representing a Madonna and Child with saints
had been listed by the Italian Ministry of Cultural Property
as one of the 800 most important works of art to retrieve.
Stolen on 9 May 1997 from the Church of St Benedict, Angri
(Italy), it was found by the Carabinieri of the Salerno
province in an abandoned house on the Amalfi coast.
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- Painting - Adoration of the Magi
(Italy)
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Italian painting published on page 77 ("Adoration of the
Magi" attributed to Parmigianino) of the ICOM publication
Looting in Europe was recovered by the Italian
Police on 12 June 2003.
This painting had been stolen on 24 december 1994 from
the Church of St Dominic, Taggia, Italy.
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