The two pilasters stolen from the Church of Caponapoli returned to Naples

They had ended up at a well-known Genoese auction house, on behalf of an antique dealer from Rome, and would soon be sold.

Two 18th-century polychrome marble pilasters stolen in Naples in 1991 from the high altar of the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie a Caponapoli were reportedly sold for tens of thousands of euros. The deal fell through, police of the Unit for the Protection of Neapolitan Cultural Heritage who, coordinated by the Genoa prosecutor's office, also identified the antique dealer and traced the auction house.

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At 10,30:XNUMX tomorrow, the works recovered by the military will be handed over by the commander of the Unit, Major Giampaolo Brasili, to the director of the Office for Ecclesiastical Cultural Heritage of the Diocese of Naples, Adolfo Russo. Fundamental to the identification was the comparison of the images of the pilaster strips with those stored in the Database of Illegally Stolen Cultural Heritage, the largest database of stolen works of art in the world, managed by the Unit Command. After the seizure, the works were subjected to a technical examination carried out by an official of the Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape who confirmed that they were indeed the two stolen ones.