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Many valuable paintings have been stolen.The paintings listed are from masters of Western art which are valued in millions of U.S. dollars.The US FBI maintains a list of "Top Ten Art Crimes"; [1] a 2006 book by Simon Houpt, [2] a 2018 book by Noah Charney, [3] and several other media outlets have profiled the most significant outstanding losses.
The Art Loss Register is a commercial computerized international database which captures information about lost and stolen art, antiques and collectables. It is operated by a commercial company based in London. In the U.S., the FBI maintains the National Stolen Art File, "a database of stolen art and cultural property. Stolen objects are ...
The Art Loss Register (ALR) is the world's largest database of stolen art. [1] A computerized international database that captures information about lost and stolen art, antiques, and collectibles, the ALR is a London-based, independent, for-profit corporate offspring of the New York–based, nonprofit International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR). [2]
The chalk-painting "Bord de Mer," by Claude Monet, created in 1865. The painting was stolen from Adalbert Parlagi by the Nazis in 1940, and returned to his descendants by the New Orleans FBI ...
The ministry also states that claims made to the Artistic Recovery Commission (which operated between November 1944 and December 1949 to assist the recovery of lost pieces) total around 100,000 ...
Thirteen works of art valued at $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum by two men posing as police officers. The art was mostly stolen from the museum's Dutch Room and included pieces by Rembrandt and Vermeer. [37] Antwerp Diamond heist: Confirmed 2003 —
Museum visitor pockets part of $70,000 art piece and walks out, Oklahoma cops say Leftovers from 2,000-year-old feast — and a ‘crockpot’ — unearthed at UK farmstead Restored Pompeii estate ...
This category is for well-known works of art which have been considered stolen (or articles about their theft) and are either missing or have been recovered. Cases of national dispute of ownership should not go in this category, even though in some cases they are considered art theft .