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The plundering of the frescoes

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The plundering of the frescoes

Historical milestone · Caltojar, Berlanga, Soria

Image of Caltojar, not of the place itself.

Twenty-three paintings were sold for 65,000 pesetas to the antiquarian Gabriel Dereppe, who resold them to North American museums; the Supreme Court declared the sale legal in 1925 and the frescoes left the country.

1922

Photo: Windwhistler (CC BY 3.0)

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