The Ghent Altarpiece, also known as The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb was stolen by two of the world’s most famous dictators, Adolf Hitler and Napoleon Bonaparte. The painting was started in the 1420s and completed by 1432 by Hubert Van Eyck and Jan Van Eyck. The two brothers had
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Plenty of artists have spoken out about AI “art” and the use of artists’ works—written and visual—to train AI models without the creators’ permission. It’s a tired topic at this point, and it is quite often met with the same counterargument: “What about disabled people? AI makes art accessible.“
Most artistic works, like paintings, are hard to steal and sell. First, most of them bear the artists’ names engraved in the art. Secondly, most famous art and paintings are always priceless and cannot fetch actual prices for the thieves who prefer selling them on the black market since most
With the rise of the internet as an art sharing platform, it has become very difficult for small artists to protect their work from being stolen and used to generate profit, often by bots. Commonly this occurs via bots searching for keywords, such as the phrase “I want this on
During World War II, the Nazis engaged in a massive campaign of art theft, confiscating over 650,000 artworks from across Europe. This was a calculated effort to deprive the Jewish people of their cultural heritage, as well as to amass a collection of art that would reflect the values of
The Nazi regime in Europe wreaked havoc and destruction on every aspect of civilization in every country that it came across. Nothing was safe as the Nazi’s killed millions, pillaged and burned, looted and depleted any signs of humanity from entire landscapes throughout Europe. Their horrendous actions and crimes against