1.
GV STOLEN PAINTINGS
0.04

2.
SLV HERR SATTLER (RIGHT) AND ITALIAN AMBASSADOR (LEFT)
0.08

3.
CU PAN FROM SATTLER TO ITALIAN AMBASSADOR
0.15

4.
SV & GV SATTLER AND AMBASSADOR HOLD PAINTING "LORENZO DI CREDI"
0.21

5.
CU "LORENZO DI CREDI"
0.24

6.
GV ZOOM IN TO SCU "THE CRYPT"
0.29

7.
CU TILT DOWN "PARABLE OF THE VINE DRESSER"
0.39

8.
GV "BRONZINO"
0.42

9.
GV "ANNUNCIATION"
0.46



Initials PGR/V/MGT/EEH



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Background: FIVE VALUABLE ITALIAN PAINTINGS LOOTED BY THE NAZIS IN ITALY IN 1944 WERE HANDED OVER BY THE WEST GERMAN GOVERNMENT TO THE ITALIAN AMBASSADOR, SIGNOR GASTONE GUIDOTTI, IN BONN TODAY (TUESDAY).THE PAINTINGS, PART OF ONE OF THE BIGGEST ART HAULS OF WORLD WAR II, ARE VALUED AT OVER GBP200,000 STERLING.

THEY WERE FOUND BY POLICE RECENTLY IN THE MUNICH HOME OF A FORMER GERMAN SOLDIER WHO KEPT THEM IN A DRAWER.POLICE ARE STILL HUNTING FOR THREE MORE PAINTINGS FROM THE SAME HAUL, MISSING FROM TWO FAMOUS FLORENTINE ART GALLERIES, THE UFFIZI AND THE GALERIA PALATINA.

THE FIVE PAINTINGS, HANDED OVER CEREMONIALLY TODAY BY HERR DIETER SATTLER, HEAD OF THE WEST GERMAN CULTURAL DEPARTMENT, ARE: A SELF-PORTRAIT BY LORENZO DI CREDI (16TH CENTURY); THE CRYPT (16TH CENTURY SCHOOL OF CORREGGIO); THE PARABLE OF THE VINE DRESSER BY DEMONICO FETI; BRONZINO (16TH CENTURY) AND THE ANNUNCIATION (17TH CENTURY).