Hunchback shot at Civic Museum di Castelvecchio, Verona. Yesterday evening, three armed men with covered faces broke in just before the museum closed, between 19:30 and 20:17 pm, immobilizing the only security guard present, before taking away XNUMX valuable paintings, including six paintings of the Tintoretto.
In addition to the works of the Venetian Renaissance artist, paintings by Peter Paul Rubens, Pisanello, Mantegna, Jacopo Bellini, Giovanni Francesco Caroto, Hans de Jode and Giovanni Benini were stolen, for an estimated value which, overall, would be between 10 and 15 million euros.
The investigations are already underway: the Scientific Police is carrying out surveys on the spot, while the investigation has been delegated to the Carabinieri Artistic Heritage Protection Unit. In any case the Mayor Tosi he is certain that it was a job for professionals: “They knew what to get and they knew the museum. Someone sent them, because they moved with skill, going without fail".
The list of stolen works:
Our Lady of the quail of Pisanello
Saint Jerome penitent in the desert of Jacob Bellini
the Holy family with a saint di Andrea Mantegna
Portrait of a young man with a child's drawing and Portrait of a young Benedictine by Giovanni Francesco Caroto
Nursing Madonna, Carrying the Ark of the Covenant, Portrait of Marco Pasqualigo, Banquet of Baltassar, Samson and Judgment of Solomon di Jacopo Tintoretto
Male portrait of circle of Jacopo Tintoretto
Portrait of a Venetian admiral of Workshop of Dominic Tintoretto
Licnid Lady of Peter paul rubens
Landscape and sea port of Hans de Jode
Portrait of Girolamo Pompei by John Benini.
