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Missing a Rembrandt? Check out your local priest’s office- apparently, some art thieves like to stash their stolen goods there. From NPR: “…the drawing was found by Father Michael Cooper, an assistant priest at St. Nicholas of Myra Episcopal Church in Encino. He opened the door to his office Monday night and noticed the framed drawing just inside. At first he thought it was a donation, but upon closer inspection, it hit him: It was the “The Judgment,” the 1655 work that had been plastered all over the news after it was stolen from the Ritz-Carlton in Marina del Rey.” Read the whole article here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/08/17/139703773/stolen-rembrandt-found-in-a-church

Missing a Rembrandt? Check out your local priest’s office- apparently, some art thieves like to stash their stolen goods there.

From NPR: “…the drawing was found by Father Michael Cooper, an assistant priest at St. Nicholas of Myra Episcopal Church in Encino. He opened the door to his office Monday night and noticed the framed drawing just inside. At first he thought it was a donation, but upon closer inspection, it hit him: It was the “The Judgment,” the 1655 work that had been plastered all over the news after it was stolen from the Ritz-Carlton in Marina del Rey.”

Read the whole article here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/08/17/139703773/stolen-rembrandt-found-in-a-church