{"id":372960,"date":"2026-03-30T12:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/372960\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T12:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:49:09","slug":"renoir-cezanne-and-matisse-paintings-stolen-from-italian-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/372960\/","title":{"rendered":"Renoir, Cezanne and Matisse paintings stolen from Italian museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thieves have made off with three paintings by Renoir, Cezanne and Matisse worth millions of pounds from a museum near the city of Parma in northern Italy, police said.<\/p>\n

The raid took place at the Magnani Rocca Foundation on the night of March 22-23, with thieves forcing open the entrance door, according to officers on Monday.<\/p>\n

The three stolen paintings are: \u201cFish\u201d by Auguste Renoir; \u201cStill Life with Cherries\u201d by Paul Cezanne; and \u201cOdalisque on the Terrace\u201d by Henri Matisse.<\/p>\n

The Magnani Rocca Foundation, a private museum, lies in the heart of the countryside 12 miles from Parma.<\/p>\n

\"AnHenri Matisse\u2019s Odalisque sur la Terrasse (Odalisque on the\u00a0Terrace) is said to have been taken (Alamy\/PA)\n<\/p>\n

Local media reported that the thieves were able to nab the paintings in less than three minutes and escape across the museum gardens.<\/p>\n

Established in 1977, the foundation hosts the collection of the art historian Luigi Magnani and also includes works by Durer, Rubens, Van Dyck, Goya and Monet.<\/p>\n

The museum believes a structured and organised gang was responsible for the theft, which was interrupted by the alarm, local media reported.<\/p>\n

The museum did not post any statement about the theft on its website and was not reachable for a comment, as it is closed on Monday.<\/p>\n

The crime in Parma comes after a series of high-profile heists at major European museums, including a major incident in October where thieves stole jewels and other items worth 88 million euro (\u00a376 million) from the Louvre in Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thieves have made off with three paintings by Renoir, Cezanne and Matisse worth millions of pounds from a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-372960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}