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Sicilian museum hit by €80 million art theft

France24 · 🇫🇷 public France · · 184 words
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Claim 1: “Three works by Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina, valued at up to €80 million, were stolen from a museum in Messina, Sicily.”
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Multiple independent web sources (France 24, Reuters, and Sözalt) report that works by Antonello da Messina valued at €80 million were stolen from a museum in Messina, Sicily.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Antonello da Messina (Italian pronunciation: [antoˈnɛllo da (m)mesˈsiːna]; c. 1425–1430 – February 1479), properly Antonello di Giovanni di Antonio, but also called Antonello degli Antoni and Angliciz…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonello_da_Messina
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Crucifixion is the subject of three different paintings by the Italian Renaissance master Antonello da Messina; the first one was completed around 1454/1455, the second and the third in 1475. They…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucifixion_(Antonello_da_Mess…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ecce Homo is the title of a series of paintings by the Italian Renaissance master Antonello da Messina. They date from 1470 to 1475.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecce_Homo_(Antonello_da_Messin…
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Claim 2: “Police are investigating the theft”
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Multiple independent sources (France 24, Sözalt, and another news report on 'Art Theft in Sicily') explicitly state that police are investigating the theft.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Le Condottière is a posthumous novel by the French writer Georges Perec, originally written between 1957 and 1960, but published in 2012 by the publishing house Seuil, in its collection "Librairie du …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Condottière
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Morabito 'ndrina is a powerful clan of the 'Ndrangheta, a criminal and mafia-type organisation in Calabria, Italy. The 'ndrina is based in Africo, located in the Locride area, from where operation…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morabito_'ndrina
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sicily (Italian and Sicilian: Sicilia), officially the Sicilian Region, is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea and one of the twenty regions of Italy, situated south of the Italian Peninsula in…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicily
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Claim 3: “Italian authorities recovered three stolen works by Cézanne, Renoir and Matisse.”
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Two independent news sources (France 24 and Sözalt) mention that the theft of the Antonello da Messina works occurred days after Italian authorities recovered three stolen works by Cézanne, Renoir, and Matisse.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Umbrellas is an oil-on-canvas painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, painted in two phases in the 1880s. It is owned by the National Gallery in London as part of the Lane Bequest but is displayed alte…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Umbrellas_(Renoir)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Les Grandes Baigneuses, or The Large Bathers, is a painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir made between 1884 and 1887. The painting is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in Philadelphia. The painting depict…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; French: [pjɛʁ oɡyst ʁənwaʁ]; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a leading French Impressionist artist. In his depiction of feminine beauty, Renoir has been described as …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Auguste_Renoir
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