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Museum of Fine Arts

Budapest, Szépművészeti Múzeum, Dózsa György út 41, 1146 Hungary

Grand neoclassical gallery of European old masters, from a tiny stolen-and-recovered Raphael to five El Greco canvases.

This guide to the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest opens with a heist: on the night of November 5, 1983, a watchman found nothing wrong, and by morning six paintings, among them a tiny Raphael bought with the entire Esterházy collection to keep it in Hungary, had vanished from these walls. It follows Italian and Hungarian police as they pick up a trail toward Greece and a hillside town called Aigio, while two months pass with no sign of the paintings. Look for the small Madonna in the gallery, the size of little more than a dinner plate.

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