Stolen Guercino painting recovered in Casablanca returns to Italy
Minister of Cultural Heritage Dario Franceschini announced the recovery of the Guercino painting 'Madonna con i Santi Giovanni Evangelista e Gregorio Taumaturgo', which was taken from the Church of San Vincenzo in Modena in August 2014. The artwork, which has sustained some surface damage, will undergo restoration at the Istituto superiore per la conservazione e il restauro in Rome. Additionally, other significant recoveries include the Mitra tauroctonos relief, 17 artworks stolen from the Museo di Castelvecchio in 2015, the Carro di Fara Sabina, and the Dea di Morgantina statue, which was returned in 2011. Meanwhile, the Caravaggio Nativity, stolen in 1969 from the Oratorio di San Lorenzo in Palermo, remains an unsolved case.
Key facts
- Guercino painting 'Madonna con i Santi Giovanni Evangelista e Gregorio Taumaturgo' stolen in August 2014 from Church of San Vincenzo, Modena
- Painting recovered in Casablanca, announced by Minister Dario Franceschini
- Canvas has surface damage, will be restored by Istituto superiore per la conservazione e il restauro in Rome
- Mitra tauroctonos relief from Terme di Diocleziano, Rome, reassembled after missing parts found in Cagliari; valued over €2 million
- 17 artworks stolen from Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona in November 2015, including Tintoretto, Rubens, Pisanello, Bellini; recovered in Kiev after over a year
- Carro di Fara Sabina, Etruscan chariot looted late 1960s from Montelibretti, sold to Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen; recovered through document reconstruction
- Dea di Morgantina, 5th-century BC statue, stolen from Morgantina, bought by Paul Getty Museum for 28 billion lire, returned 2011 after legal dispute; now in Museo archeologico di Aidone, Sicily
- Zeus in trono statuette, 1st century BC, acquired by Getty from Fleischman collection, returned to Italy; to be placed at Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli
Entities
Artists
- Guercino
- Jacopo Tintoretto
- Peter Paul Rubens
- Pisanello
- Jacopo Bellini
- Caravaggio
- Phidias
Institutions
- Comando dei Carabinieri per la Tutela del Patrimonio Culturale
- Istituto superiore per la conservazione e il restauro
- Museo di Castelvecchio
- Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
- Paul Getty Museum
- Museo archeologico di Aidone
- Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli
- Oratorio di San Lorenzo
- Church of San Vincenzo
- Terme di Diocleziano
- Museo Nazionale Romano
Locations
- Casablanca
- Morocco
- Modena
- Italy
- Rome
- Verona
- Kiev
- Ukraine
- Cagliari
- Fara Sabina
- Montelibretti
- Copenhagen
- Denmark
- Morgantina
- Aidone
- Sicily
- Malibu
- United States
- Naples
- Palermo
- London
- United Kingdom