Part of haul from 2019 German museum jewelry heist recovered

Dresden’s Green Vault museum became a crime scene following a November 2019 theft that included jewelry with a collective value of $121 million. On December 17, German authorities announced they had recovered 31 of the stolen items. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit Bambizoe. Shared under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.
Dresden’s Green Vault museum became a crime scene following a November 2019 theft that included jewelry with a collective value of $121 million. On December 17, German authorities announced they had recovered 31 of the stolen items. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit Bambizoe. Shared under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.
Dresden’s Green Vault museum became a crime scene following a November 2019 theft that included jewelry with a collective value of $121 million. On December 17, German authorities announced they had recovered 31 of the stolen items. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit Bambizoe. Shared under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.

BERLIN (AP) – German authorities said December 17 that they have recovered a significant part of the 18th-century treasures stolen from Dresden’s Green Vault museum in a spectacular break-in more than three years ago.

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Belgium shows restored masterpiece but stolen panel rankles

Jan van Eyck, 'Just Judges' missing panel from 'Ghent Altarpiece,' 1432. Public domain image via Wikipedia
Jan van Eyck, 'Just Judges' missing panel from 'Ghent Altarpiece,' 1432, reproduction painted by Vanderveken. Public domain image via Wikipedia
Jan van Eyck, ‘Just Judges’ missing panel from ‘Ghent Altarpiece,’ 1432, reproduction painted by Vanderveken. Public domain image via Wikipedia

GHENT, Belgium (AP) — Look closely, and one panel of the brilliantly restored lower half of the Ghent Altarpiece still has old varnish, right next to the vivid coloring that has come to life again in one of the most iconic works of Western art. Continue reading