Dieric Bouts

Two looted paintings return to Polish museum

Piotr Gliński, the Polish culture minister, who attended a ceremony marking the paintings' return to their old home said they will be hung exactly where they had hung up to 1939. Tomasz Wojtasik/PAP

Two 15th-century paintings looted by German forces during World War II have been returned to Poland.

Looted 15th century art to return after being found in Spanish museum

The two 15th century pieces, ‘Dolorosa’ (Lady of Sorrows) and ‘Ecce Homo’ (Behold the Man) by the Flemish painter Dieric Bouts, were discovered at the Pontevedra Museum in Spanish Galicia.

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