A good – and bad – week for Italy’s art police and museum security

A journalist browses the Messina museum website showing a picture of the Early Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina’s artwork, multiple pieces of which were stolen from the Sicilian museum on Aug. 15, 2026. Gregorio Borgia/AP

Gregorio Borgia/AP

The good news came first.

In late March, a gang used a tractor to batter down a fence before two masked burglars broke into the Magnani Rocca Foundation, a private museum about 12 miles from the northern

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