Christopher A. Marinello, who has recovered more than $515 million worth of art and artifacts, is increasingly being called upon to recover luxury timepieces.

On March 12 the Singer Laren art museum located 18 miles south east of Amsterdam closed its doors due to the Coronavirus. Then last week, under cover of darkness, thieves broke the glass doors of the museum and absconded with an 1884 oil painting by Vincent van Gogh called The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring. The painting had never been appraised but similar works by van Gogh have fetched tens of millions at auction

From break-ins to cyber attacks, here's some practical advice to secure your collection.

Sixty hours ago, Van Gogh’s oil The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring was stolen from the Singer Laren museum in the Netherlands. I am certain that it was not what Van Gogh would have wished for his birthday; Monday was the 167th anniversary of his birth.

Certain things in this lifetime will paint a target on your back. In the unforgiving world of thievery – both common and higher end – this includes a nice timepiece. Granted, the methods of separating a nice timepiece from their rightful owner’s wrist aren’t always so… sophisticated. But where it does become more complex is what comes after. The real magic, as it were, actually lies in who you know and what you know – i.e. the ensuing process of fencing “hot” watches through a network of proxies, eventually selling it off internationally, and making away with the ill-gotten gains before anyone gets wise. And often times, where standard law-enforcement are too slow on the draw, that’s when Christopher Marinello steps in: founder and CEO of Art Recovery International.

Timepieces are more recognizable and valuable than ever, making them a juicier target for thieves. Art Recovery International's Christopher Marinello is on the case.

A painting of the Mona Lisa hangs above a fireplace in a London flat in the 1960s. Is this picture not only by Leonardo da Vinci, but also an earlier version of the world famous portrait that hangs in the Louvre Museum in Paris?

Art Recovery International is currently undertaking an investigation into the location and recovery of a painting by Edgar Degas that was looted by the Nazis in France in 1940.

Christopher Marinello has made a career out of tracking down priceless stolen art and artifacts.

Within minutes of receiving the prestigious Fields Medal, which some refer to as the Nobel Prize of mathematics, Caucher Birkar, Ph.D., realized it had been stolen.

Whether for money, thrills, or some kind of deeper emotional compulsion, people sure do find ways to steal a bunch of weird things.

Thirty years after it was stolen, an early Marc Chagall has been recovered by the FBI. The painting, titled Othello and Desdemona, belonged to retired jeweler and art collector Ernest “Pick” Heller and his wife Rose “Red” Heller, and was stolen from their New York apartment back in 1988, along with numerous other paintings, sculptures, and art objects including jewelry, carpets, silverware, and Steuben china.

Uno spettacolare docu-film, Hitler contro Picasso, della 3D Produzioni e Nexo Digital (nella foto sotto, “mr. Nexo”, Franco Di Sarro) con SkyArte HD. Una serie di mostre in Europa con il ritrovato tesoro di Hitler. Un’intervista-appello di Chi l’ha visto? per l’introvabile prima opera di Michelangelo. E l’incontro con gli americani cacciatori dell’arte. Continua il successo della grande arte al cinema e in tv che riserva molte informazioni ed emozioni ai crescenti “art lovers”

Media call on Christopher Marinello; the Sherlock Holmes of the art scene. The lawyer and art detective is specialized in bringing back looted and stolen art objects from all over the world. The case of the Benin-Bronzes plundered in 1897 from Benin-City is not “particularly complex” for him: They should be returned.

The two small rooms are hidden off to the side, far from the crowds that surge through France’s most famous museum in search of the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo.

When the German customs authorities began to investigate a quiet old man travelling on a train from Switzerland to Munich in 2010, little did they know what it would lead to.

A trove of stolen paintings by Abstract Expressionist master Hans Hofmann has been recovered by agency Art Recovery International, more than a decade after they were stolen from a fine art storage space in Manhattan.

Tamara De Lempicka, “Myrto,” 1929, oil on canvas (B&W photo)