Italiano
“The taking of Porta Pia” returns to home than seventy years after his death. The Carabinieri of Nucleo Tutela Patrimonio Culturale of Venezia have recovered and seized a valuable work of painting (oil on canvas), part of the wider composition of the painting entitled “Charge of Bersaglieri” (cm. 300 x 200) made by the Neapolitan painter Michele Cammarano (Naples 1835 – 1920), the interpreter said renaissance painting season. The painting was stolen by German troops from the local barracks of the “chain” of Verona, during the tragic days that followed September 8, 1943.
The military has tracked the painting – a section cut from the opera original – at an auction house in Naples, thanks to the valuable information contained in the database of the “Cultural Heritage unlawfully removed”, the largest database in the world run by the special department of the Carabinieri, which has made possible the feedback and recognition of the painting. The work was also to be found inserted in the famous catalog “to find work – repertoire of Italian artistic heritage lost during the Second World War” published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry for Cultural and Environmental Heritage in 1995. the realization of this catalog has been promoted by the famous Rodolfo Siviero, former Minister Plenipotentiary of the Italian Republic, the art detective who succeeded in the difficult post-war years, to recover many important works of art stolen during the Second World War.
The painting was returned in the morning today by the police on the 8th Bersaglieri Regiment in Caserta, who in 1943 was allocated precisely at the barracks “chain” of Verona, the place of theft. The Regiment, star of the prestigious past of the glorious feats of arms, and, more recently, of challenging missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, is now stationed in Caserta, in the slots of the barracks “Ferrari Orsi“.
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