India, Aug. 17 -- Thieves stole four works attributed to the Sicilian Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina from a regional museum in the Sicilian city of Messina on the Italian Ferragosto holiday, the news agency LaPresse reported on Sunday. The thieves bypassed alarm and security systems Saturday evening at the MuMe regional museum to make off with three of the five surviving panels of the San Gregorio Polyptych, dated from 1473, as well as the double-sided panel depicting the Virgin Mary and dead Christ in Pieta, which was removed from an armoured display case, LaPresse reported. "It is a tremendous loss for the museum, the city, the community and the art world," MuMe director Marisa Mercurio told the ANSA news agency. She said the th...