ROME (AP) \u2014 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, 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":"ROME (AP) \u2014 Thieves made off with three paintings by Renoir, C\u00e9zanne and Matisse worth millions of euros…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,3071,229,88,1076,793,134716,2026,6801,246417,1033,217841,22148,965],"class_list":["post-554394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-crime","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-europe","tag-general-news","tag-henri-matisse","tag-international-news","tag-italy","tag-luigi-magnani","tag-painting","tag-paul-czanne","tag-theft","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554394","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=554394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}