“It does not matter whether an antiquity or painting was stolen ten years ago or ten thousand years ago – a stolen object is a stolen object,” said District Attorney Bragg. “This investigation makes clear that looting and trafficking is far from a thing of the past, and we will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to aggressively root out and dismantle these schemes.”
Both paintings are characteristic of the Cuzco school, a distinctive artistic tradition that flourished from the city of Cuzco, Peru, during the Spanish colonial period. One painting,…
