A Renaissance painting stolen more than half a century ago has been returned to Italy after a British woman agreed to relinquish o...

A Renaissance painting stolen more than half a century ago has been returned to Italy after a British woman agreed to relinquish ownership following a lengthy mediation process. The Madonna and Child, a tempera painting on wood attributed to 16th-century painter Antonio Solario, vanished from Belluno’s Civic Museum in 1973 during a heist in which half a dozen other works were also taken. The recovered work will remain on public view at the museum until 27 July, where it will be exhibited alongside two Madonnas by Bartolomeo Montagna that were also stolen in the 1973 heist and later recovered. It will then undergo restoration as absorbed humidity has caused its panels to warp and paint to flake. It will return to the museum’s permanent collection following the restoration. https://lnkd.in/gi8_zHg6