| Art theft is an ancient and complicated crime. When you look at the some of the most famous cases of art thefts in history, you see thoroughly planned operations that involve art dealers, art fakers, mobsters, ransoms, and millions of dollars. Here you can read about some of the most famous cases of art theft in the history. The First Theft: The first documented case of art theft was in 1473, when two panels of altarpiece of the Last Judgment by the Dutch painter Hans Memling were stolen. While the triptych was being transported by ship from the Netherlands to Florence, the ship was attacked
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| Awesome artist from Uzbekistan. There's also a movie to see. Oleg Zhivetin
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| Antonio Guzman Capel makes the most amazing and wonderful paintings. Yes, paintings, not photographs. Of course some are more obvious than others but all of them are very realistic. There are many more photos, I mean paintings on his site at antoniocapel.com
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| It seems art thieves are becoming more active these days. Not long ago thieves stole 2 Picasso paintings.
Now 4 more paintings have been stolen from a EG Buehrle Collection in Zurich. Masked thieves broke in and stole masterpieces by Cézanne, Degas, Van Gogh and Monet worth $170 million.
The stolen masterpieces are "Poppies near Vétheuil" by Claude Monet, "Count Lepic and his Daughters" by Edgar Degas, "Blossoming Chestnut Branch" by Vincent Van Gogh and "Boy in a Red Waistcoat" by Paul Cézanne.
This is the biggest art robbery in Europe since 1988 when three Van Gogh works worth £94 million
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