Results for “caravaggio”

Case

The Caravaggio Nativity, Palermo

In 1969 Caravaggio's 'Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence' was crudely cut from its frame in a Palermo oratory. Long linked to the Sicilian Mafia, it remains one of the world's most-wanted missing paintings.

Artwork

The Taking of Christ

A lost Caravaggio hanging unrecognised for decades in a Dublin Jesuit residence, misattributed to a follower, until its dramatic rediscovery and authentication in 1993.

Artwork

Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence

Caravaggio's late altarpiece, cut from its frame in a Palermo oratory in 1969 and long linked to the Sicilian Mafia. One of the most-wanted missing paintings in the world.

Museum

Oratory of San Lorenzo

The Palermo oratory from which Caravaggio's 'Nativity' was cut from its frame in 1969 and lost forever.