{"id":554197,"date":"2026-03-30T12:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/554197\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T12:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:57:09","slug":"thieves-steal-paintings-by-renoir-cezanne-and-matisse-in-italy-museum-heist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/554197\/","title":{"rendered":"Thieves steal paintings by Renoir, C\u00e9zanne and Matisse in Italy museum heist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thieves made off with three paintings by Renoir, C\u00e9zanne and Matisse worth millions of euros (dollars) from a museum near the city of Parma in northern Italy<\/a>, police said on Monday.<\/p>\n

The heist took place on the night of March 22-23, with thieves forcing open the entrance door, police said.<\/p>\n

The three stolen paintings are \u201cFish\u201d by Auguste Renoir, \u201cStill Life with Cherries\u201d by Paul C\u00e9zanne, 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 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Parma.<\/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 D\u00fcrer, Rubens, Van Dyck, Goya and Monet.<\/p>\n

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

The museum didn\u2019t post any statement about the theft on its website and wasn\u2019t 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 euros ($101 million) from the Louvre in Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thieves made off with three paintings by Renoir, C\u00e9zanne and Matisse worth millions of euros (dollars) from a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-554197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}