FBI launches 'most wanted' list of stolen art

CTV ^ | 12/2/05 | News Staff

[BenLurkin]

[BenLurkin]

Munch Madonna:

[BenLurkin]

"View of Auvers-sur-Oise",

[BenLurkin]

"Madonna of the Yarnwinder"

[ClearCase_guy]

7,000-10,000 Iraqi artifacts looted and stolen in 2003

This made the top of the list??

Bush has a lot of 'splainin' to do!

[csvset]

Cellini's Salt Cellar

[BenLurkin]

"The Storm on the Sea of Galilee"

[theDentist]

I have this same painting in the back room that I picked up at a yard sale for $5. But it is attributed to someone named "Daisy - age 8"

[NautiNurse]

The stolen Van Gogh paintings:

View of the Sea at Scheveningen and Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church at Nuenen

[Liberfighter]

Or, what the hell do all of those international pieces have to do with the ones stolen in the US. I can understand a International top 10 list.

[Republicanprofessor]

I can't promise that these are the very images that were stolen, but here goes:

Munch's Madonna and Scream

Cellini's Salt Cellar

One of Caravaggio's images of Saint Francis. I don't know if this is the right one or not.

Cezanne's View of Auvers-sur-Oise This is the one I would like most of all that were stolen. Cezanne is hard to understand but wonderful when you do.

Da Vinci's Madonna of the Yarnwinder

[BenLurkin]

Oh, that salt cellar! There is a photo of that in our old Time/Life History of Western Civilization book. Where would somebody to sell something that famous?

[Republicanprofessor]

You are fast!! I was working on my own list of images but you whipped them up before I could. Congrats, and thanks to all for the van Gogh and Rembrandt's I missed.

[Pyro7480]

As much as I like "The Scream," that sure ain't a Madonna in the traditional sense. Maybe in the post-1980s sense...

[Republicanprofessor]

Art ping.

Let Sam Cree or me know if you want on or off this list.

[BenLurkin]

Much painted in the early 20th Century IIRC. Think avant garde early anti-civilization Euro trash.

[Republicanprofessor]

Art Appreciation/Education ping list.

This might interest you all too, although it is not one of the informative "lectures." Such information may grow from the thread.

Let me know if you want on or off this list.

(For those that don't know about the Art Appreciation "lectures," click on my name for my home page and clickable "classes" therein.)

[Publius6961]

BUMP!

[Republicanprofessor]

Munch had a problem with women, as you can see. He never had a successful relationship and grew up in the socially repressive Norwegian society at the turn of the century.

I've always liked Puberty myself; very scary with that huge phallic shadow. See, you can do things with abstraction that you can't do with perfect realism. Like the similarly scary femme fatate image of the Madonna that was stolen.