3 Sep 2016

Art Crime with Arthur Tompkins: the missing Missal

From Saturday Morning, 10:45 am on 3 September 2016

Kim Hill talks to Arthur Tompkins is a District Court Judge, and editor of Art Crime and its Prevention: A Handbook for Collectors and Art Professionals (Lund Humphries). He has a special interest in crimes involving artistic masterpieces, and writes a bi-monthly series of articles in the online magazine Versopolis about stolen masterpieces now back on public display. He will discuss the 12th century Benevento Missal, taken to Britain after World War II and then returned to Italy as a result of a ruling of the UK's Spoliation Advisory Panel.