A North Carolina museum is at the center of a dispute over a 16th-century painting that may have been looted by the Nazis. Two elderly Austrian sisters say the painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder was stolen from their family. Estimated to be worth $750,000, “Madonna and Child in a Landscape” is now held by the North Carolina Museum of Art after changing hands at least three times since the end of World War II.
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