{"id":858393,"date":"2026-08-15T00:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T00:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/858393\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T00:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T00:06:16","slug":"stolen-artworks-by-cezanne-matisse-and-renoir-recovered-by-italian-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/858393\/","title":{"rendered":"Stolen artworks by C\u00e9zanne, Matisse and Renoir recovered by Italian police"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Italian police have recovered three paintings by \u200cFrench masters Paul C\u00e9zanne, Henri Matisse and Pierre-Auguste Renoir that were stolen from a museum near the northern city of Parma \u200bin March, officials said on \u200bFriday.<\/p>\n

Carabinieri officers from Italy’s cultural heritage protection unit found the works of art in \u200ban apartment in Parma, AGI news agency \u2060reported, adding that \u2060nine Moldovan nationals had \u200cbeen placed under investigation over the theft.<\/p>\n

The paintings were taken from the Fondazione Magnani Rocca museum in Mamiano di Traversetolo, near \u2060Parma, during the night of March 22-23<\/a>. Art experts said their estimated value exceeded \u20ac9 million ($14.4 million).<\/p>\n

The recovered \u200cworks are Cezanne’s Tasse et Plat de Cerises, Renoir’s Les Poissons and Matisse’s Odalisque sur la Terrasse.<\/p>\n

Police on \u200bFriday released a video of the theft, showing two masked \u2060burglars entering via a window, grabbing the three paintings \u2060off the wall and then immediately exiting the building, \u2060in \u2060an operation \u200bthat took less than three minutes.<\/p>\n

The Fondazione Magnani Rocca \u200bhouses a \u2060private collection assembled by the late music critic Luigi Magnani, including works by Titian, Francisco Goya, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Claude Monet, Peter Paul Rubens and Giorgio Morandi. <\/p>\n

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