PALERMO, Sicily — On a stormy night in October 1969, thieves broke into the Oratory of San Lorenzo, a small chapel in what was then Palermo’s dilapidated Kalsa quarter, and made off with one of the ...
The original stretcher out of which Caravaggio’s Nativity was cut in a 1969 mafia heist still hangs, like an open wound, in an antechamber of the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo. The small ...