The European Union has pinned down the Italian cultural patrimony ministry for having declared as a national treasure a Bernardo Belloto painting which has been belonging to a British collection for two centuries. The painting showing the palace of the magistrates and the Broletto Nuovo in Milan was produced by Belloto in 1744. It had been loaned for the Lucas Carlevarijs and Venetian landscape exhibition which took place in Padua in 1994. The painting had been granted a temporary import authorisation for the exhibition but weeks after it ended Italian authorities decided to classify it as a national treasure despite the fact that it had been sent back to England.
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