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Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

FBI's Art Theft Program

It might be very interesting to work for the FBI's art theft unit...

http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/arttheft/arttheft.htm

Following is the FBI's current list of the top ten art crimes:

*Iraqi Looted and Stolen Artifacts

*Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Theft

*Theft of Caravaggio's Nativity with San Lorenzo and San Francesco

*Theft of the Davidoff-Morini Stradivarius

*The Van Gogh Museum Robbery

*Theft of Cezanne's View of Auvers-sur-Oise

*Theft of the Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Murals, Panels 3-A and 3-B

*Theft from the Museu Chacara do Céu

*Theft of Van Mieris's A Cavalier

*Theft from E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich