A Stolen 16th Century Madonna Painting Is at the Center of Dispute Between Widow and Small Italian Museum

A 16th-century painting stolen from an Italian museum more than half a century ago has resurfaced—not in a grand gallery or a private collection, but at the center of a bitter dispute between an English widow and a small-town museum in northern Italy.The work in question, Madonna and Child by Antonio Solario, was stolen in 1973 from the civic museum in Belluno, a picturesque town in the Dolomites. Some years later, it found its way to the English countryside, purchased by the lat