Get a Masters in Art Crime
Monday November 10, 2008
Got a couple of spare weeks in May next year, fancy mixing some travel and art study? Here's an opinion that's decidedly different: a Masters-type program in International Art Crime Studies with the Association for Research into Crimes against Art (ARCA) in Italy. You'll need to get your thesis written by November 2009; applications deadline is 1 December 2008. Find out more here...
See Also:
• Continuing Education
See Also:
• Continuing Education
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The greatest thing we can thank the Vatican for is her protection and value of it’s art. The Vatican holds the world’s most priceless works, though at times commissioned against biblical prophecy; human nature, even at it’s worst, is held among highest officials of the Catholic church.
A question for a future master’s student in art theft: If you were employed by Interpol, and given the chance to recover Rembrandt’s “The Storm on the Sea of Galilee”; no doubt rolled up in a corner, canvas cut from it’s frame, guns blazing for it’s recovery, would you attempt? Or just leave it there until it rotted away, unsold probably? The Genovese crime family would have revealed themselves by now, in my amateur opinion. This theory doesn’t make sense. Would you want the job as a restoration expert? Wouldn’t it be better to leave this canvas alone with it’s frayed edges, among the other works abused and stolen from Isabella Stewart Gardner? If you recovered these works, could you let it go? I personally could not. Maybe a psychologist could make better sense of this, barring emotion and gratitude of the immense talent of these painters.