Amateur Treasure Hunters Discover Infamous Stolen Room Worth Over $500 Million

Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen

This $15,000,000 piece was stolen from the Van Gogh museum in 2002. This painting was meant to depict the congregation of his father’s church carrying Van Gogh’s mother while she was in recovery from a broken femur. This was the last depiction of Van Gogh’s mother in his artwork before she died, a piece of his family gone...

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