Police, in Sting, Recover Stolen Renaissance Art
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NEW YORK — Detectives posing as art collectors recovered a stolen 16th-Century Italian painting valued at $250,000 and arrested the Chicago dealer who tried to sell it to them at a Manhattan hotel, authorities said Saturday.
Investigators were looking for a second man who entered the Gramercy Park Hotel with the suspect.
The painting by Giambatista Zelotti is a depiction of the Annunciation, showing the angel blowing a trumpet and the Virgin Mary holding a unicorn. It was stolen in 1989 from a home in East Hampton, N.Y.
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