{"id":373025,"date":"2026-03-30T13:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/373025\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T13:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:48:08","slug":"paintings-worth-millions-stolen-from-museum-in-italy-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/373025\/","title":{"rendered":"Paintings ‘worth millions’ stolen from museum in Italy | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three famous paintings worth millions have been stolen from a museum in northern Italy.<\/p>\n

The works by French artists Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Matisse and Paul Cezanne were taken in an operation lasting less than three minutes, police said.<\/p>\n

The thieves targeted the Magnani-Rocca Foundation villa, south of the city of Parma<\/a>, on the night of 22 March.<\/p>\n

According to sources close to the investigation, the stolen masterpieces were Renoir’s Les Poissons, Cezanne’s Still Life With Cherries and Matisse’s Odalisque On The Terrace.<\/p>\n

The value of the three is worth “tens of millions euros”, an investigator said.<\/p>\n

However, Italian public broadcaster Rai reported the stolen works were worth \u20ac9m (\u00a37.8m).<\/p>\n

There has been no official confirmation on the combined value of the paintings.<\/p>\n

The paintings were on the first floor of what is called the Villa of Masterpieces in the Sala dei Francesi – the Room of the French.<\/p>\n

The thieves, wearing balaclavas, gained entry by forcing open a door and were described as an “organised group”.<\/p>\n

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\n The work by Pierre-Auguste Renoir stolen in the heist<\/p>\n

They were disturbed by the museum’s alarm system and escaped before they could take more paintings, “which was their intention”.<\/p>\n

Investigators are assessing museum security footage.<\/p>\n

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The Magnani-Rocca Foundation is a private museum which lies in the heart of the countryside 12 miles from Parma.<\/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

It comes after a series of high-profile heists at major European museums, including last October when thieves stole jewels and other items worth \u00a376m from the Louvre<\/a> in Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three famous paintings worth millions have been stolen from a museum in northern Italy. The works by French…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-373025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373025","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=373025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}