{"id":17733,"date":"2014-12-01T13:02:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T13:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/blog\/?p=17733"},"modified":"2024-04-04T05:50:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T09:50:39","slug":"catholic-church-to-clamp-down-on-religious-art-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2014\/12\/catholic-church-to-clamp-down-on-religious-art-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic church to clamp down on religious art theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/italy\/11261984\/Catholic-church-to-clamp-down-on-religious-art-theft.html\">Catholic church to clamp down on religious art theft<\/a>&#8211; this is really sad &#8230; now we will be lucky to see copies of the original works of art.\u00a0\u00a0This past\u00a0August, Madonna with St John the Evangelist by Guercino \u2013 estimated to be worth \u00a35 million \u2013 was stolen\u00a0after alarms failed to go off in the church of San Vincenzo.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 319px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/italy\/11261984\/Catholic-church-to-clamp-down-on-religious-art-theft.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/guercino2_3006410b.jpg\" alt=\"guercino2_3006410b\" width=\"309\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guercino &#8220;Madonna with St John the Evangelist&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catholic church to clamp down on religious art theft&#8211; 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