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Nativity with Saint Francis and Saint Lawrence, Caravaggio, 1609. 268 cm × 197 cm (106 in × 78 in) The Nativity with Saint Francis and Saint Lawrence is a painting of the nativity of Jesus from 1609 by Italian painter Caravaggio. It has been missing since 1969 when it was stolen from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo.
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 Nativity has been depicted in many different media, both pictorial and sculptural. Pictorial forms include murals, panel paintings, manuscript illuminations, stained glass windows and oil paintings. The subject of the Nativity is often used for altarpieces, many of these combining both painted and sculptural elements. Other sculptural ...
Around 1643, he had this chapel decorated by Champaigne. The Nativity occupied a central place in the chapel, flanked by paintings of the Visitation (now in the Seattle Art Museum ), Joseph's Dream (probably lost), and at the top, the Assumption of Mary (now in the Musée Thomas-Henry in Cherbourg). [2]
A baby Jesus figurine was returned to a Colorado nativity scene where it was stolen from just days before Christmas — and an apology note was left behind. The statuette was taken from the Old ...
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 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 FBI got involved in 2021, after the commission discovered that a New Orleans-based art dealer had acquired the painting in 2017 and sold it to private collectors in 2019.