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Paintings Stolen: Eight paintings by 16th-Century German artist Lucas Cranach the elder, worth $42 million, were stolen early Monday from Weimar castle in Germany. Police said the burglars cut through iron bars to enter the east German castle and steal the works, which included five portraits. The automatic alarm sounded at 4 a.m. but security guards failed to be alerted by it. Only when the alarm went off a second time did they rush to the scene, but by then the thieves were gone. Cranach was court painter of the Saxon princes and died in Weimar in 1553 at age 81.