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Paintings Removed: Nineteen paintings by founders of the Futurist movement were withdrawn from Milan’s Brera art museum and put in a bank vault because of security fears, the owners said Wednesday. The family of the late Riccardo Jucker, who donated the paintings by Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla and Carlo Carra, said they would rather pay bank custody charges than “risk a nasty accident.” Two paintings by other artists have been stolen from the Brera museum in the past three years.
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