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Canvas of Pieter Brueghel the Younger, stolen from Italian church

Unknowns have a painting by Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564-1637/38) from a church in the Northern Italian province of La Spezia stolen. "The work is invalua

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Canvas of Pieter Brueghel the Younger, stolen from Italian church
Unknowns have a painting by Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564-1637/38) from a church in the Northern Italian province of La Spezia stolen. "The work is invaluable," said mayor Daniele Montebello, the municipality of Castelnuovo Magra today to the news agency Ansa. "I suspect that it is a theft to order.”

In the same church Chiesa di Santa Maria Maddalena are also two other important works. "Let us hope that the cloth is quickly found,” said mayor of Montebello.

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The work hung in the church Chiesa di Santa Maria Maddalena of the Ligurian municipality. According to the municipality, the stolen cloth to make a copy of the famous ‘Kruisdraging’ of Brueghels, father Pieter Bruegel the elder (circa 1525/30-1569). the

Brueghel the Younger made often copies and variations of works of his father. The original from 1564 is exhibited in the art history museum in Vienna. The Flemish schildersdynastie Brueghel brought in the 16th and 17th century a lot of masters on, whose work is of influence on the European art history. The spelling of the name with h from the second generation usual.

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