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Cover art - The Scream, fingerprint ink on police print card done in thumb print, 2" x 1-1/4", 2004 copyright Charles Vincent Sabba
The following are links for Charles Sabba's artwork, blog and articles with La Voce di New York.
Show Notes
0:00 Sabba’s great-grandfather
3:45 retired police captain
4:15 duCret School of Art in Plainfield, NJ
4:50 1986 - Austrialian Cultural Terrorists stole Weeping Woman by Picasso
6:20 NYPD Art Theft Investigator
3:40 US Navy
7:30 Naples, Italy
8:35 federal corrections’ witness protection unit
11:20 School of Visual Arts
11:40 Betty Thompkins
11:44 Andrew Gensel
11:45 Anton van Dalen and his show at the PPOW Gallery
12:25 Fred DePalma
13:00 influence of his police work on his art
14:30 documentary Defending the Peninsula
18:00 the era of power and money over cultural patrimony
18:40 Napoleon’s looting of Italy
20:30 Monuments Men
21:55 1800s Papal Edict governing exportation of works from Italy
22:30 1947 article 9 of Italy’s Constitution
23:50 collection of Gardner Museum
24:35 Vermeer’s The Concert purchased by Gardner
26:00 Getty Trust - fight over Euphronios Krater with the Met
27:45 Manhattan DA’s office April 2022 seizure
28:30 Lysippos di Fano Bronze
34:30 agreement to table discussion about return of Lysippos pending Italian court ruling
36:45 assertion that the Lysippos is Greek not Italian
39:30 status of request for return of Lysippos
39:50 History Channel television series Histories Greatest Heists with Pierce Brosnan
41:00 paint chips sent to Boston Herald related to Gardner Heist
44:00 1997 - William Youngworth negotiated with Gardner Museum for return of stolen works via prosecutors
45:45 Chicago-based Expert Walter McCrone determined paint chips were from Rembrandt.
48:35 1998 - Vermeer expert
49:10 2003 - Dr. Hubert von Sonnenburg, Chairman of Paintings Conservation at The Met, found chips were consistent with the Vermeer
50:00 Dr. Jennifer Mass’ opinion about the Sonnenberg’s opinion on the paint chips
52:30 Sabba’s painting practice reflects his interest in art crime - fingerprint paintings
53:50 Sabba’s portraits of individuals involved in art crime
55:25 Art critic Jerry Saltz
56:30 Y Gallery
58:15 artists that speak to social issues, e.g., prison reform
1:01:25 Sophie Calle: Last Seen
1:02:05 climate activists’ attacks on soft targets
1:06:40 Justice defined
1:09:20 Legacy
Please share your comments and/or questions at [email protected]
Music by Toulme.
To hear more episodes, please visit Warfare of Art and Law podcast's website.
To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast and/or for information about joining the 2ND Saturday discussion on art, culture and justice, please message me at [email protected].
Thanks so much for listening!
© Stephanie Drawdy [2025]
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Cover art - The Scream, fingerprint ink on police print card done in thumb print, 2" x 1-1/4", 2004 copyright Charles Vincent Sabba
The following are links for Charles Sabba's artwork, blog and articles with La Voce di New York.
Show Notes
0:00 Sabba’s great-grandfather
3:45 retired police captain
4:15 duCret School of Art in Plainfield, NJ
4:50 1986 - Austrialian Cultural Terrorists stole Weeping Woman by Picasso
6:20 NYPD Art Theft Investigator
3:40 US Navy
7:30 Naples, Italy
8:35 federal corrections’ witness protection unit
11:20 School of Visual Arts
11:40 Betty Thompkins
11:44 Andrew Gensel
11:45 Anton van Dalen and his show at the PPOW Gallery
12:25 Fred DePalma
13:00 influence of his police work on his art
14:30 documentary Defending the Peninsula
18:00 the era of power and money over cultural patrimony
18:40 Napoleon’s looting of Italy
20:30 Monuments Men
21:55 1800s Papal Edict governing exportation of works from Italy
22:30 1947 article 9 of Italy’s Constitution
23:50 collection of Gardner Museum
24:35 Vermeer’s The Concert purchased by Gardner
26:00 Getty Trust - fight over Euphronios Krater with the Met
27:45 Manhattan DA’s office April 2022 seizure
28:30 Lysippos di Fano Bronze
34:30 agreement to table discussion about return of Lysippos pending Italian court ruling
36:45 assertion that the Lysippos is Greek not Italian
39:30 status of request for return of Lysippos
39:50 History Channel television series Histories Greatest Heists with Pierce Brosnan
41:00 paint chips sent to Boston Herald related to Gardner Heist
44:00 1997 - William Youngworth negotiated with Gardner Museum for return of stolen works via prosecutors
45:45 Chicago-based Expert Walter McCrone determined paint chips were from Rembrandt.
48:35 1998 - Vermeer expert
49:10 2003 - Dr. Hubert von Sonnenburg, Chairman of Paintings Conservation at The Met, found chips were consistent with the Vermeer
50:00 Dr. Jennifer Mass’ opinion about the Sonnenberg’s opinion on the paint chips
52:30 Sabba’s painting practice reflects his interest in art crime - fingerprint paintings
53:50 Sabba’s portraits of individuals involved in art crime
55:25 Art critic Jerry Saltz
56:30 Y Gallery
58:15 artists that speak to social issues, e.g., prison reform
1:01:25 Sophie Calle: Last Seen
1:02:05 climate activists’ attacks on soft targets
1:06:40 Justice defined
1:09:20 Legacy
Please share your comments and/or questions at [email protected]
Music by Toulme.
To hear more episodes, please visit Warfare of Art and Law podcast's website.
To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast and/or for information about joining the 2ND Saturday discussion on art, culture and justice, please message me at [email protected].
Thanks so much for listening!
© Stephanie Drawdy [2025]
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