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Thieves steal 4 Renaissance artworks in a Sicilian museum heist during an Italian holiday

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MILAN (AP) — Thieves stole four works attributed to Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina worth millions of euros from the regional museum in the city of Messina in Sicily while crowds gathered across town for the traditional Assumption holiday celebrations, cultural officials and Italian media s…

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  1. East Idaho News

    Thieves steal 4 Renaissance artworks in a Sicilian museum heist during an Italian holiday (opens East Idaho News)

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    MILAN (AP) — Thieves stole four works attributed to Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina worth millions of euros from the regional museum in the city of Messina in Sicily while crowds gathered across town for the traditional Assumption holiday celebrations, cultural officials and Italian media s…

  2. Philadelphia Inquirer

    Thieves steal 4 Renaissance artworks in Sicilian museum heist on Italian holiday (opens Philadelphia Inquirer)

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    Thieves have stolen four works attributed to Sicilian Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina from a museum in Messina, Sicily

  3. The Guardian

    Rare Renaissance paintings by Antonello da Messina stolen from Sicilian museum (opens The Guardian)

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    Four works were taken during public holiday, the day after Italian police recovered paintings by Cézanne, Renoir and Matisse Four of the most important works of art by the 15th-century Renaissance master Antonello da Messina were stolen during a national holiday from a museum in the Sicilian port ci…

  4. CBS News

    4 Renaissance paintings stolen from museum in Italy (opens CBS News)

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    Local officials have expressed their dismay and sadness at the theft which occurred during celebrations of the Virgin Mary.

  5. Breitbart News

    Thieves Steal Four Renaissance Artworks in Sicilian Museum Heist (opens Breitbart News)

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    Thieves stole four works attributed to the Sicilian Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina from a regional museum in the Sicilian city of Messina on the Italian Ferragosto holiday, the news agency LaPresse reported Sunday.

  6. BBC News

    Four 'extraordinary' Renaissance paintings stolen from Italian museum (opens BBC News)

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    The works were taken overnight without alarms being triggered, raising suspicion of a professional hit.

  7. France 24

    Italy: Four Renaissance artworks stolen from Messina museum in Sicily (opens France 24)

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    Four artworks by Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina have been stolen from the Museo Regionale in Messina, Sicily, overnight on August 15. The thieves took three panels from his Polittico di San Gregorio, depriving the city of part of the only surviving works by the painter still held in his ho…

  8. NPR

    A good – and bad – week for Italy's art police and museum security (opens NPR)

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    On Friday, Italian police said they'd recovered three paintings stolen from a museum near the city of Parma. By Saturday night, thieves in Sicily had made off with four more masterpieces.

  9. Deutsche Welle

    Italy: Thieves steal key Renaissance paintings in Sicily (opens Deutsche Welle)

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    Four Renaissance paintings by Antonello da Messina were stolen from his Sicilian hometown on Saturday after surviving earthquakes and centuries of history. Crooks took them while locals celebrated a religious holiday.

  10. Al Jazeera

    Thieves steal Renaissance artworks in museum heist during Italian holiday (opens Al Jazeera)

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    As Messina celebrated Sicilian holiday Ferragosto, thieves struck the MuMe museum to steal the masterworks by Antonello.

  11. France 24

    Sicilian museum hit by €80 million art theft (opens France 24)

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    Three works by Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina, valued at up to €80 million, were stolen from a museum in Messina, Sicily. Police are investigating the theft, which comes days after Italian authorities recovered three stolen works by Cézanne, Renoir and Matisse.

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