Portrait of Rembrandt's Father. I don't know if this is the one that was stolen or not, but it was probably similar.
Rubens Seneca
Posted on 01/09/2006 8:44:42 AM PST by kronos77
Two thieves broke into a museum in a northern Serbian city, snatching four valuable paintings, including works by Rembrandt and Rubens.
Police in the city of Novi Sad, 50 kilometres north of the capital of Belgrade, say the masked robbers entered the City Museum early Sunday morning and tied up the guards.
Police official Stevan Krstic said the stolen pieces include Rembrandt Van Rijn's Portrait of Father, Peter Paul Rubens' Seneca, a miniature by Italian baroque painter Pier Francesco Mola and another oil painting by an anonymous 16th-century Dutch painter.
The City Museum exhibits fine and applied arts from the 17th-to the mid-20th century.
Krstic said the two guards were not hurt.
Portrait of Father is reportedly worth 3.6 million euros ($5.1 million Cdn). It had previously been stolen a decade ago and recovered in Spain.
Police would not release any other details.
It has to be the work of the Serbian mafia. I've been to Belgrade before, you can see them driving by in their black Range Rovers with tinted glass, they are very powerful, the same as the Russian mafia.
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Portrait of Rembrandt's Father. I don't know if this is the one that was stolen or not, but it was probably similar.
Rubens Seneca
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