A Sculpture Stolen from a Tuscan Chapel Has Been Missing for Over a Century. Italian Authorities Claim It’s in Cleveland | Artnet News

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A sculpture stolen from a Tuscan chapel has been missing for over a century. Italian authorities claim it's in Cleveland:

For decades, the whereabouts of a sculpture stolen from a Tuscan chapel remained unknown. It turns out the piece may have been hiding at the Cleveland Museum of Art nearly the whole time.July 2020 parliamentary session

Since then, however, the senators claim, their case has not been acted upon by cultural officials on either side of the Atlantic Ocean., depicts the Madonna enthroned with the Christ Child on her knee, the two of them flanked on either side by Saints Francis and Giovanni Gualberto. Created around 1510–20, the sculpture is glazed with pigments made from crushed glass, imbuing it with a uniquely vibrant color palette that hasn’t faded with time.

Those who believe the sculpture was stolen from Italy suggest the crime took place years earlier. Per a report by the, it was taken by a group of thieves from a chapel in ​​Ponte agli Stolli, a hamlet outside Figline and Incisa Valdarno in Central Italy, in 1904 or 1905.

 

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