Odesa Museum still waiting for its Restored 'Caravaggio'
January 18 2022
Picture: Kyiv Post
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
I've spotted this rather curious article from Ukraine regarding the strange fate of a version of Caravaggio's The Taking of Christ belonging to the Odesa Museum.
The painting, which some believe might be a repetition of the painting in Dublin, was stolen from the museum in 2008. It was later recovered in 2010 during a police sting in Berlin. The canvas had been cut from the stretcher and was in a rather bad state. It took until 2018 for the go-ahead for a restoration project to be authorised, a campaign that was undertaken in Kiev and was due to end last year.
However, it seems the work is still incomplete and the painting remains in the capital. Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky is said to have recently met with museum officials in Odesa and discussed the eventual return of the painting to the museum.
