Caggiano, seventeenth century portray stolen in 1983 discovered

On July 29, 2024, at 4:30 pm, on the Church of the Most Holy Savior of They’re shittingthe Commander of the Unit for the Safety of Cultural Heritage (TPC) of Palermo will return the oil portray on canvas “Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary”, bottega Francis Solimena (1657–1747), of nice historic and cultural worth, relationship again to the 18th century, stolen in February 1983.

Civil and army authorities might be current on the ceremony. The investigation exercise, coordinated by the Public Prosecutor’s Workplace of Palermo, is
was developed, in synergy, by the Carabinieri Unit for the Safety of Cultural Heritage of Palermo and the Carabinieri Station of Caggiano, as a part of the fixed management and monitoring exercise of products bought on e-commerce platforms. The preliminary report arose from the every day checks carried out by the Knowledge Processing Part of the Carabinieri Command for the Safety of Cultural Heritage of Rome,
which manages the “Database of illegally stolen cultural belongings” of the Ministry of Tradition, a singular instance at worldwide stage, the most important on the earth with over 1.4 million recordsdata referring to items to be looked for.

The associated investigative insights then highlighted the precise correspondence between the portray current within the internet catalogue of a Palermo public sale home and the images inserted within the aforementioned Database, continuing with the seizure of the work by itself initiative, validated by the competent Judicial Authority which ordered its launch and its restitution immediately. Lastly, the officers of the Superintendence of Cultural Heritage of Palermo licensed that it was a portray “whose stylistic influence and the chiaroscuro contrasts of the depicted picture allowed it to be traced again to a southern pictorial manufacturing, and extra exactly to the Campania space”.

The synergic collaboration between the Carabinieri TPC Nucleus of Palermo, the Armaterritorial and the civil and spiritual establishments has allowed, as soon as once more, the restitution to the group, greater than 40 years after the theft, of these works that represent its native identification, particularly to the Church of the Santissimo Salvatore of Caggiano which, within the fifteenth century, turned the Cathedral wherein the Bishops of the suppressed Diocese of Satriano have been hosted.