Video showed the thieves sneaking into the Magnani-Rocca Foundation near Parma to steal the works by Renoir, Cezanne and Matisse in just 180 seconds.

Italian authorities have recovered three stolen artworks by Renoir, Cézanne, and Matisse worth millions of euros.

Italian art cops on Friday recovered three major paintings, a Cezanne, a Matisse and a Renoir, stolen from an art foundation near Parma in March. (ANSA)

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Artwork by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse all recovered

The three paintings, worth over US$10 million, had been stolen from a museum in Italy in under three minutes.