Renaissance

Thieves steal four Renoir paintings from museum on French Riviera in most recent European art heist

Art thieves in Europe are committing more violent robberies and specialist gangs have been replaced by ad hoc ​opportunists recruited through social media, pan-European police body Europol said.

|ByREUTERS
Police officers patrol in front of the entrance of the Musee Renoir after four paintings, together valued at nine million euros, were stolen in an early-morning break-in, with two recovered in the museum's garden and two still missing, in Cagnes-sur-Mer on September 8, 2026.
Lucas Cranach the Elder’s map of the Holy Land in Christopher Froschauer’s Old Testament (Zürich, 1525) in The Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge

500-year-old Bible map inadvertently shaped modern ideas of national borders, study asserts

Study author, University of Cambridge Professor Nathan MacDonald, described this map's inclusion as "simultaneously one of publishing’s greatest failures and triumphs.”

|ByJOANIE MARGULIES

Rediscovered Renaissance masterpiece to be exhibited at Vatican Museums

The artwork, believed to be the original work of Mantegna, was recently rediscovered in the Sanctuary of Pompeii.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF