A Dutch art researcher regained an invaluable treasure of stolen documents from the 15th to the 19th century, including several files included in the UNESCO list from the world’s first multinational company. Arthur Brad, known as “Indiana Jones of the Art World” who has recorded other successes of recovery of stolen masterpieces, said his latest discovery was one of the most important. “In my career, I have managed to return fantastically stolen works of art, from Picasso to a Van Gogh … And yet this finding is one of the most important of my career,” Brad told AFP. Many of the documents are narrated in the early days of the Dutch East Indies (VOC) company (VOC), whose global commercial and military operations contributed to the Dutch “golden age” when the Netherlands was a global superpower. 17th -century VOC documents offer a “fascinating picture of the events of that time in places such as Europe, India, Indonesia, South […]
Source: News Beast
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