Another happy ending
May 24 2011
A triptych stolen from Italy and bought by the Speed Museum in Kentucky in 1973, has been returned to its owners.
The picture, thought to be by Jacopo da Casentino (d.1358), was one of 14 works of art stolen in a raid on an Italian Villa, now thought to be worth $33m. The Speed Museum paid $38,000 for it, unwittingly, and has no insurance to cover the loss.
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