Some 49 gold works by 20th century
Italian abstract sculptor Umberto Mastroianni on show at the
former home of poet and nationalist proto-Fascist Gabriele
d'Annunzio at the Vittoriale at Lake Garda were stolen a day
before the exhibit was due to close, in a one-million-euro
heist.
The theft of the works, which had been on show since December 3'
last year at the Vittoriale degli Italiani at Gardone Riviera,
in the province of Brescia, was discovered by the managers of
the Vittoriale who, when they opened the doors in the morning,
found all the exhibition spaces empty.
The Carabinieri of the Cultural Heritage Protection Unit,
Italy's crack art cops, are investigating.
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