LOST & FOUND Found: The 500-year old Cupola of Found: A new way to clean Notre the Duomo in Florence will emerge in Dame's three main doors in Paris-- Piero Cannata, 49--the same man June after a 15-year, $7-million struc- with laser technology. The work, to who had been sentenced to a tural checkup and artistic overhaul. remove dirt without damaging color psychiatric hospital in 1991 after he 4,000 square meters of restored 16th remaining in saints' sculpted clothes, hammered a toe off Michelangelo's century frescoes will re-emerge to will mark the fist major restoration of David--after he was seen scribbling dominate the Florentine skyline again. the cathedral's portals since the mid- with a black marker pen on an impor- In addition, thanks to 600 tons of lead 1800s. The 13th-century design tant 15th-centurychurch fresco. Can- ingots stacked around the raised north served as a pictorial Bible for the il- nata was arrested after defacing about side of its foundation, Pisa's 800-year- literate. a square yard of "The Obsequies of St. old tower has stopped leaning, so the Stephen," painted by Renaissance leaning tower of Pisa leans a IittIe less Found: "Christ as a Man of Sorrow", master Filippo Lippi on a cathedral in and with more security. a devotional image by Petrus Christus Prato. dating from about 1450, was originally Found: In the village of Radovljica, to be part of the Metropolitan Slovenia, an hour's drive north of Museum of Art's show, "Petrus Chris- Found: Police officers posing as art Ljubljana is a museum dedicated to tus: Renaissance Master of Bruges," dealers have recovered an oil painting apiculture. Among the artifacts for which opened April 14 and runs by Raphael that disappeared in the beekeeping is an art form unknown to through 31 July. But the painting, early 1800s. The undercover officers most people, namely, the front boards which belongs to the Birmingham in Vicenza, Italy, had agreed to pay of the hives were painted by itinerant Museum & Art Gallery in England, $24 million for the 16th-centurypaint- artists in the southernmost reaches of was stolen on 2 December 1993. Al- ing, known as "The Madonna with the Austro-Hungarian Empire to though the alarm was sounded and the Child and Lamb" as well as "The paint the front boards of their drawer- building was sealed in less than 2 Madonna of the Hay". The painting like Kranjic hives with colorful scenes minutes, the thieves got away. Since was seized at a bank in Milan after from the Bible, folk tales and history. the painting, oil on wood, was only 4 several art dealers who had been The art of decorating beehives died 3/8 x 3 318 inches, it could easily be keeping it in a safe-deposit box in Swit- abruptly after World War I, when pocketed. It was detected when at- zerland agreed to the sale price and Slovenia became part of Yugoslavia tempts to sell the painting in the sent the work across the border. and lost its role as imperial honey Netherlands and Switzerland led to its producer. With the advent of big, recovery. Several arrests were made Foundi: A Gutenberg Bible taken modern hives from America, the need after an investigation. A new frame from a Leipzig museum and carried to to paint hives disappeared, drawing no was secured for the work and a new Russia at the end of World War I1 by attention since Austrian ad- Plexiglas case. It is now included in Red Army soldiers was discovered ministrators regarded the painted the exhibition, as one of the earliest recently in the State Library in Mos- front boards as primitive. Now only works to show the artist's connections cow. According to an Associated Pres 1000 of the naive front board paintings with manuscript illumination, both in report, the volume had been so well survive in a handful of Slovenian size and technique. hidden that Igor Filippov, the director museums and in the homes of private of the library,, only learned of its collectors. How to preserve them is Found: 202 works of art confiscated presence a few months ago. the big question now. while leaving or entering France il- legally during the past decade were Found: 3 young men, two of them Lost: The famed Sanguszko Carpet, given to France's culture ministry brothers, were charged in March with 91feet 6 inches long and on loan to the from customs officers in May. Valued the theft last year of 5 Picasso paint- Metropolitan Museum of Art, has by some experts at $2.6 million, includ- ings and other artworks, valued at been claimed by the Prince Paul Fran- ing paintings, drawings, sculptures more than $10 million. 5 paintings and cois Roman Sanguszko, who lives in and ancient musical instrument, the a bronze sculpture by Picasso, along Sao Paulo, Brazil. He offered it to the works of art will be given to museums. with two works by Braque, were stolen Museum for $4 million, but it was to from the Modern Museum of Stock- short notice, so that carpet was sold to Missing: Edvard Munch's The holm on 8 November. It was the big- the Shurnei Cultural Foundation of Scream, world famous painting, was gest art theft ever in Sweden. 3 lesser- Kyoto, Japan, which is building a stolen from an exhibitioninOslo, Nor- known Picassos were found virtually 240,000 square foot museum designed way, connected with the Winter Olym- undamaged in December; the other, by I.M. Pei to be called the Miho pics. The alarm was set off and the more famous works are still missing. Museum of Art. thieves were registered by a security camera, but not too clearly. Rumor has it that =ti-&ortion protester have ing, basements are undermined by opening--which w2.l involve three days taken it as a means of getting &&- barnding and long-forgotten tunnels of raucous revelry hcludkg a tour of paoae media coverage, retur&g it and dr&nage systems, and is actasd%y the Pittsburgh sites of Andy's lie, ody if the mti-abortion film, "The si&g at a rake of a h&-mntheter at &works at anaihigk and a 24hour Silent ScreamHis shorn on national year, into ground that grows more sod- museum open house. The museum is te8eGsion. Another offer was made on den with the passing of each season. located at I317 Sandinsky St. in Bit- 3 March in which the lawyer repre- tshrgh, inn a 73,000 square foot senting oppnents of abortion s&d The Getty Musew Has been trying warehouse bdtin 1911md renovated that one of &s clients would mange to buy Three Graces by Antonio at a cost of $12.3 million by Richard the return of the painting for $31 d- Catnova, but has been delayed for five Glnchan Architects of New York. Eon. years, since a new law in Endmd was Hncladed is aa kcfives Study Center, Found: Evard Munch's master- enacted stjipu8ahing that artworks con- a fim theater and a coffee shop. The piece>'The Scream" was retmned to sidered part of Britain's national museum "kseliongs to Carnegie In- its place at the National Art Mweum heritage might leave the country ody stitute, and is a collaboration between in Oslo, Norway in May nedy thee if no pubkic or private parties in Baitah the Carnegie, Dia Center for the Arts months after bekg stden from the wanted to buy them. (The V & A is the and the Andy WarhoiQFwdation for mnsem on 12 February 3994. Two only British public ktitu"sion wGch the Visual Arts Inc. thieves climbed a ladder, broke a has attempted to buy it, but by 11990 second-floor window md climbed in was unwccessfd in raking enough The museum at the seaside tom of to grab the painting. money to acquire it. The Getty is d- Koksijde, Belgium featured Bast year ing to pay $11.4 &on if m export an exksibition that traces the history Found: The world's oldest paved license is granted, but the British and use of the toilet though the ages. road, a 4500-yea-old highway that Goverment Has agah delayed decid- About 10,000 people visited the ex- Ued a basalt quarry b a desolate ing whether to &OWthe work to leave hibition--entering through a giant region of the Egyptian desert to water- the country until 5 August.. toilct seat--for a two-week period, ways that carried basalt blocks to which generally averages 5,000 people monument sites dong the Nile. The Uffizi 's Michnehngelo room, a a month. The last show of the year part of the museum damaged in East dealt with cu8inax-y habits--2,W years Found: Schwitter's Ursonate, a 43- May's bombing which killed five of eatkg by the rich and by the poor. minute composition made of bits of people, has reopened, the first part of "shattered wordsn--rhythmicphonetic the museum to be restored in the west kaguna M Museum director Char- sequences--arranged in four move- wing, which was the most heavily les Desmarais was dismissed by the ments. Discovered by Jack Ox, a Ger- damaged area. 15 more rooms are to museum's board at the end of March man-hsed American artist, who was be reopened by the end of the year. after the board president called for Iplkng a aed-medim "visual in- "more energy" in the museum's ad- terpretation" of the Schwitters work Genglhis Khan: Treasures from ani~stration.In a statement, the board and recently ruled genuine by a Inner Mongolia containing more than said it failed to work out "differences Cologne court, the electronically 200 artifacts spanning 3,580 years of in management philosophies" with remastered version will appeared in Mongol history from the 2nd millen- Desmarais.