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The theme is black , white and grey

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This painting was nearly destroyed in a fire.

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This art is special because it is rare and it is rare because they never sold it

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It was made in 1907 New York

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There’s most yellow and gold but use the same patterns

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The theme is mostly brown frames with red and gold

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The Ghent Altarpiece was stolen 13 times and 6 in ww2 it was stolen by napoleon and also by Adolf hitler and the Nazi parties.

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From ES and GS

So this painting was also stolen in WW and was a personal treasure to its owner

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This art piece had nearly been burned in a fire, it had been forged, napoleon robbed it and nazis wanted to own it. Part of it has been for 80 years

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This artwork was precious because of the vision of the visionary

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In 1934  one of it’s 12 panels was stolen in a hiest😡

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The 8 greatest pieces of art were saved during WWll

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The theme is mostly yellow and gold

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This painting was saved in the world war 2 and it was kept somewhere safe     Bacause it was precious

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This painting was stolen by the napolians

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The painting was renamed “woman in gold”because the natsisys want to steal it

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Theo and Josiah

The woman is gold is so famous because it is golden style

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The painting is so famous because it was nearly burnt in a fire and Napoleon stole it also it was the first major oil painting . It represented the Kings and Queens so olden days.The theme is it was also stolen in WW2

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It was hunted in world war 1 is was stolen in world war 2 loads of times of times but it was saved by the monuments of men

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Everything that could of happened to this picture happened
and it almost burnt in fire

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Theo and josiah

It was painted in lost angles

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This painting is from lots angeles and it became a movie because it was stolen

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This was one of her best art work and  she was hung in the museum for 50 year

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Napoleon stole it,Calvinist nearly burnt it and Nazis were desperate to steal it

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In September  1939 the Nazis invaded Poland.
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The monuments men saved art , archives, architecture and monuments from the Nazis in world war 2.

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From Ekam and Gurahib :

The painting is from Los Angeles and is famous for being stolen by the nazis and it was so shocking it became a movie.
The theme is that it was stolen in world war and it represented a refugees aunt.

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The famous painting of the lady in gold was painted in 1907 by Gustavia Klimt, it is a portrait of Adele Bloch- Bauer.It is considered Klimt most famous painting in his so called golden style.Klimt’s painting of the Jewish socialite captured Adele’s irresistible beauty.

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It’s was famous because only 8 paintings and models was saved

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Takes influence from the Byzantine mosaics at the church
of san

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Million fancs demanded to the ramson in his bank account.

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To buy the painting it  cost £135 million and it was sold in 2006.Several paintings including the 1907 portrait of Adele has been hanging in museums after their confiscation by Nazi Agents

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The woman in gold was hung in the Belvedere museum for 5 decades(50 years)

Also there’s a movie about it.

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Works of art was stolen by  Nazis😤

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For 50 years, the woman in gold hung at the Belvedere museum in Vienna.
Ryan Reynolds, Helen Mirren and Daniel Bruhl star in Woman in gold.
There is a film about the woman in gold.
The film Woman in Gold is out now, while the exhibit at the Neue Galerie will be on view through September 7. 👸🏼🌟

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Theo and josiah

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One of Klimt's most famous artworks.

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Johannes Vermeer's 'The Astronomer'

When it comes to the most priceless, rare, and treasured works of art stolen by the Nazis, most people think of art in museums and churches. However, there were also thousands of personal art collections that were plundered that contained some remarkable treasures as well. One such painting was Johannes Vermeer's 'The Astronomer,' which was held in the private collection of Edouard Alphonse James de Rothschild. He, like many other Jewish citizens with the resources, fled Paris when the Germans advanced. He did his best to hide his art collection, but it was still discovered and completely looted.

Hermann Goering, who was known for taking the world's treasures for his own personal collection, coveted the painting, but knew that it was also a personal favorite of Hitler. So instead of keeping it for himself as he had so many other works, he sent it to Hitler as a gift. The painting is particularly coveted because there are so few Vermeer paintings in existence. 'The Astronomer' was painted in 1668 and is rich with detail and symbolism.

'The Astronomer' is suggested to be a painting of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, and it shows the man looking at a celestial globe while the 1621 edition of Institutiones Astronicae Geograhicae sits open on the desk. There is religious symbolism with the book open to the section that tells the astronomer to seek "inspiration from God."

After being looted by the Nazis, the painting was hidden in the Altausee salt mine. It was discovered by the MFAA and returned to the Rothschild family who were lucky enough to survive the war. The family turned the painting over to the state as payment for inheritance taxes in 1983, and it has been displayed in the Louvre ever since.

DaVinci's 'Lady with an Ermine'

While Herman Goering may have turned over 'The Astronomer' he did manage to keep 1,500 works of art and sculptures for himself. One such work that he prized was Leonardo DaVinci's ' Lady with an Ermine.' This portrait was completed around 1490 and is one of only four portraits of women that were painted by DaVinci. The painting is of Cecilia Gallerani, who was the mistress of the Duke of Milan at the time of the painting.

At the time of the painting, Cecilia Gallerani was just 16-years-old but was known for her beauty and scholarship. The ermine in the painting is said to be the symbol of purity, for it was believed that the ermine would rather die than soil its white coat. Others suggest that the ermine might be a symbol of her pregnancy. The painting is beloved for how well it shows DaVinci's skill in painting portraits, and how much detail is given to every aspect of the human form.

The first records of the painting state that it was acquired by Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski in 1798 and it was incorporated into the family collection at Pulawy in 1800. It was known as the time to be a DaVinci even though the painting had never before been referenced. In 1830, the painting was hidden from advancing Russians, but returned to Krakow in 1882.

In 1939 it was seized by the Nazis immediately after the invasion of Poland and it was sent to the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin. A year later it was requested by Hans Frank, the Governor-General of Poland so that he could hang it in his suite of offices. He kept the painting with him when he fled Poland ahead of the advancing Soviet Army in 1945. When he was arrested in 1946, the painting was recovered by the MFAA and returned to the Czartoryski Museum.

Benvenuto Cellini's Saliera

Benvenuto Cellini was a Renaissance sculptor with an infamous reputation. He was known to get into fights, commit murders, and embezzle money. He was sentenced to death and imprisoned numerous times, but he either escaped or was forgiven of his crimes so that he could work for one wealthy aristocrat or another. He first received recognition in Rome for his metalwork, where he made seals and medals for the high-ranking members of the church. In return, he was pardoned for his crimes.

He was imprisoned in Rome in 1537 but escaped only to be recaptured. However, he was released so that he could work for Cardinal d'Este of Ferrara. It was in the Cardinal's employ that he presented a wax model of an intricate salt shaker, but the Cardinal refused the expense. Cellini decided to try his luck in France and presented the model to King Frances I, who commissioned the piece.

The stunning golden shaker depicts Neptune and Tellus, the gods of the sea and earth. Under the shaker are rollers so the king could push the shaker and move "the world" with his fingers. It was said that when the king first saw the shaker he "gasped in amazement and could not take his eyes off it." Today it remains the only surviving work of Cellini that is made in precious metals, and it remains his most famous work.

When the Nazis made their way through Italy, it was seized from the Vienna Kunsthistorische Museum. It was in Kitzbuhel, Austria that Monuments Man Calvin Hathaway discovered the salt cellar. The cellar was returned to the museum and is estimated to be worth more than $60 million today.
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The Monuments Men: The 8 Greatest Pieces of Art Saved During World War II

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Johannes Vermeer's 'The Astronomer' When it comes to the most priceless, rare, and treasured works of art stolen by the Nazis, most people think of art in museums and churches. However, there were also thousands of personal art collections that were plundered that contained some remarkable treasures as well.

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ust about everything bad that could happen to a painting has happened to Hubert and Jan van Eyck's Adoration of the Mystic Lamb (also known as the Ghent Altarpiece). It's almost been destroyed in a fire, was nearly burned by rioting Calvinists, it's been forged, pillaged, dismembered, censored, stolen by Napoleon, hunted in the first world war, sold by a renegade cleric, then stolen repeatedly during the second world war, before being rescued by The Monuments Men, miners and a team of commando double-agents. The fact that it was the artwork the Nazis were most desperate to steal - Göring wanted it for his private collection, Hitler as the centrepiece of his citywide super-museum - has only increased its renown.

It's easy to argue that the artwork is the most influential painting ever made: it was the world's first major oil painting, and is laced with Catholic mysticism. It's almost an A to Z of Christianity - from the annunciation to the symbolic sacrifice of Christ, with the "mystic lamb" on an altar in a heavenly field, bleeding into the holy grail.

In 1934, one of its 12 panels was stolen in a heist that has never been solved, though the case is still open and new leads are followed all the time.

On 11 April of that year, Ghent police commissioner Antoine Luysterborghs pushed through a crowd at the St Bavo Cathedral that had gathered to gawk at something that was no longer there. One of the panels, depicting The Just (or Righteous) Judges, was gone. The commissioner took a quick look, and left. The missing panel - from what was already the most stolen artwork in the world - could wait. Across the street was another theft on the same night he had already been investigating: at a cheese shop.

This is just one of many bizarre twists in the story of one of the most famous art heists in history. The theft was followed quickly by a ransom demand for one million Belgian francs. As a show of good faith, the ransomer returned one of the panel's two parts (a grisaille painting of St John the Baptist). But police remained baffled.

Then a stockbroker called Arsène Goedertier had a heart attack at a Catholic political rally. He summoned his lawyer, Georges de Vos, to his deathbed. Just before he died, De Vos claimed, Goedertier whispered: "I alone know where the Mystic Lamb is. The information is in the drawer on the right of my writing table, in an envelope marked 'mutualité.'" The lawyer followed the instructions and found carbon copies of the ransom notes, plus a final, unsent note with a tantalising clue about the stolen panel's whereabouts: "[it] rests in a place where neither I, nor anybody else, can take it away without arousing the attention of the public."

But if Goedertier did steal the panel, why? The church has been defensive, and there is an air of cover-up - as well as evidence that other members of the bishopric were involved. One theory goes that a group of church members, Goedertier among them, were involved in a failed investment scheme that lost church money. Rather than admit their failure, they stole the panel and ransomed it to cover the losses. But Goedertier was wealthy and devout; it seems odd he would resort to extorting his beloved diocese.

The investigation that followed was no more thorough than Commissioner Luysterborghs's had been. De Vos failed to alert police about Goedertier's confession for a month. Eventually, after many false leads, police concluded Goedertier had been the thief. The case went cold. The panel is still missing. But to this day, a detective with the Ghent police remains assigned to it, inheriting the case from his predecessors. Progress is still being made.

The Adoration of the Lamb from The Ghent Altarpiece. Photograph: © Archivo Iconografico, SA/Corbis

The greatest strides in solving the crime have not been made by an active officer, though. Karel Mortier was chief of the Ghent police from 1974 to 1991, and fascinated with the Just Judges theft. It was a huge unsolved mystery, not just for Ghent, for Flanders, for Belgium, but for the art world. Mortier has dedicated his quiet hours to the hobby that drives him to this day: the hunt for the lost panel.

Now in his 80s, he has done more than anyone to shed light on the case. He was the first to note that Goedertier had an eye problem that meant he could barely see in the dark, much less rob a cathedral at night. He turned up information that Goedertier already had more than the million francs demanded in the ransom in his bank account. What, then, was the motivation for stealing the panel?

Mortier also suggested Goedertier could not have acted alone: the panel was taken from the altarpiece's framework, which was so high off the ground that it needed a ladder, and at least two people, to remove it. Surely, Mortier concluded, one of the four church custodians was involved, if only to provide the ladder.

Mortier's investigation met many obstacles. The church granted him access to 600 pages of archives relating to the painting - but not the period between 1934-1945. It seemed there was either a conspiracy to hide the truth, or that those involved in the investigation, the police in particular, were wildly inept. (As well as the cheese-shop fiasco, another officer began using Goedertier's typewriter, on which he'd written the ransom notes, without fingerprinting it first.)

But perhaps most impressive have been Mortier's physical discoveries. During the second world war, 10 years after the theft, Joseph Goebbels sent an art detective, Heinrich Köhn, to Ghent to find the lost Judges panel as a gift for Hitler. Köhn's investigation concluded that the panel was originally hidden on-site, but had been moved before he arrived, to keep it out of his hands. This meshes with statements from Goedertier, which Mortier learned about but the police had never noted. Apparently, Goedertier told his wife "What is misplaced is not stolen"; when his wife suspected the Germans, he replied: "I wouldn't look so far. If they'd let me search for it, I'd stay in the vicinity of the cathedral."

Mortier feels this latter statement could refer to the church community, not just the physical location of the cathedral. In 1963, he flew to Germany and tracked down Heinrich Köhn's widow. She allowed him to copy Köhn's 176-page file on his search, which showed he was convinced the panel was simply hidden inside the cathedral. On 22 May 1942, Köhn's assistant had told the bishop that the Germans were going to close the cathedral to search it.

The bishop told him to tell the then-canon, Gabriel van den Gheyn (who had also kept the painting safely hidden during the first world war), that the Germans would try and seize it - so Van Den Gheyn arranged for the whole altarpiece to be smuggled out of the cathedral by night, hidden in a junk cart, and secreted in private homes until the war ended. It's possible that Goedertier told Van Den Gheyn during confession about the theft - but that Van Den Gheyn never came forward with the information to protect it from the Nazis. Mortier reports that Max Winders, the Belgian collaborator who worked with Köhn, later said that Van Den Gheyn had found the panel. This all sounds promising, but does not explain why Van Den Gheyn, once the war was over, would not reveal the panel's whereabouts.

Mortier still receives new clues all the time. He estimates he has been contacted about 350 possible locations for the Judges panel, none of them correct. Saint Bavo has been searched six times since the second world war; Mortier even supervised an x-ray of the whole cathedral to a depth of 10 metres.

Detail of The Adoration of the Lamb from The Ghent Altarpiece. Photograph: © Archivo Iconografico, SA/Corbis

The case remains alive in the public's imagination too: in 1995, Goedertier's skull was illegally excavated by an amateur detective. Someone then stole the skull to host a seance and ask Goedertier about the theft. In 2004, Mortier ran DNA tests on the stamps of the ransom letters, reasoning that they might contain the thief's saliva. The tests were inconclusive.

The current detective in charge of the case, Jan de Kesel, made a major discovery when he tracked a lead to a church in Goedertier's home town, and found the outline of a panel the exact dimensions of the lost Judges. Was this where Van Den Gheyn hid it from the Nazis? (Though this still does not explain why Van Den Gheyn would not return the panel after the second world war.) There are gaps in every theory. The attorney general's office maintains a 2,000-page file on the theft, and the Canon of Saint Bavo still gets dozens of tip-offs that don't amount to anything - except that this theft is still aching to be solved.
Noah Charney is author of Stealing the Mystic Lamb: the True Story of the World's Most Coveted Masterpiece. The World's Most Expensive Stolen Paintings is on BBC2 on 21 December at 9pm.

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The Ghent Altarpiece: the truth about the most stolen artwork of all time

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Napoleon robbed it, Calvinists nearly burned it, the Nazis were desperate to own it, and it has been missing for 80 years - but there are new leads all the time. Noah Charney on the theft of the Ghent Altarpiece, the world's most notorious art heist