Rich Rollin
Written Assignment Art Theft
There are several agencies around the world working to curtail art theft and recover stolen works.
The assignment will require you to explore several website to learn more about their efforts, examine one case of art theft and identify why art is so valuable. Prepare a five paragraph essay citing at least two sources.
Explore the following websites and become familiar with the efforts being made to stop art theft internationally. Discuss what each sites has to offers and how they are approaching art theft.
The Card Players is a series of oil paintings by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Cézanne. Painted during Cézanne's final period in the early 1890s, there are five paintings in the series. The versions vary in size and in the number of players depicted. Cézanne also completed numerous drawings and studies in preparation for The Card Players series. One version of The Card Players was sold in 2011 for a price variously estimated at between $250 million and $300 million, making it the most expensive work of art ever sold. The art crime team is 14 agents that bring people that steal arts to justices. When they find the person who stolen the art it will go into a National Stolen Art File. The 14 agents are going to do their best to lock up the theft. Art and cultural property crime which includes theft, fraud, looting, and trafficking across state and international lines—is a looming criminal enterprise with estimated losses running as high as $6 billion annually. To recover these precious pieces—and to bring these criminals to justice—the FBI has a dedicated Art Crime Team of 14 special agents, supported by three special trial attorneys for prosecutions. And it runs the National Stolen Art File, a computerized index of reported stolen art and cultural properties for the use of law enforcement agencies across the world. The two detectives assigned to the Art Theft Detail
There are several agencies around the world working to curtail art theft and recover stolen works.
The assignment will require you to explore several website to learn more about their efforts, examine one case of art theft and identify why art is so valuable. Prepare a five paragraph essay citing at least two sources.
Explore the following websites and become familiar with the efforts being made to stop art theft internationally. Discuss what each sites has to offers and how they are approaching art theft.
The Card Players is a series of oil paintings by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Cézanne. Painted during Cézanne's final period in the early 1890s, there are five paintings in the series. The versions vary in size and in the number of players depicted. Cézanne also completed numerous drawings and studies in preparation for The Card Players series. One version of The Card Players was sold in 2011 for a price variously estimated at between $250 million and $300 million, making it the most expensive work of art ever sold. The art crime team is 14 agents that bring people that steal arts to justices. When they find the person who stolen the art it will go into a National Stolen Art File. The 14 agents are going to do their best to lock up the theft. Art and cultural property crime which includes theft, fraud, looting, and trafficking across state and international lines—is a looming criminal enterprise with estimated losses running as high as $6 billion annually. To recover these precious pieces—and to bring these criminals to justice—the FBI has a dedicated Art Crime Team of 14 special agents, supported by three special trial attorneys for prosecutions. And it runs the National Stolen Art File, a computerized index of reported stolen art and cultural properties for the use of law enforcement agencies across the world. The two detectives assigned to the Art Theft Detail