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The Metropolitan Museum in New York is exhibiting the oldest fragment of the *Odyssey*

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has returned the oldest surviving fragment of the *Odyssey* to public view, placing it once again within the exhibition layout of its main building on Fifth Avenue, after it had been stored in the museum&rsq...
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The Metropolitan Museum is returning more than 45 artifacts that were illegally removed to Italy

The District Attorney of Manhattan ( New York, United States), Alvin L. Bragg Jr., announced the return of 59 cultural artifacts to their respective countries of origin— Italy, Iraq, and Indonesia—following three separate official ceremonies that mar...
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The Madonna recently acquired by the Met is believed to be by Alonso Berruguete, not Rosso Fiorentino

The *Madonna and Child with Saint John the Evangelist*, acquired earlier this year by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, may not be by Rosso Fiorentino : according to scholars Luigi Agus and Alessandro Nesi, it may in fact be a painting b...
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As of 2028, the Neue Galerie in New York will flow into the Metropolitan Museum. Major donations expected

The Metropolitan Museum of Art and New York 's Ronald S. Lauder Neue Galerie have announced an agreement set to mark a major turning point in the international museum landscape: beginning in 2028, the Neue Galerie will officially merge with the Met t...
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Rosso Fiorentino's first painting rediscovered: the Met in New York will acquire it

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has announced plans to acquire a newly rediscovered painting by Rosso Fiorentino (Giovanni Battista di Jacopo; Florence, 1494 - Fontainebleau, 1540), one of the leading figures of Mannerism. The work, a Mado...
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Raphael's Ecstasy of St. Cecilia flies from Bologna to the Metropolitan in New York

The Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna is preparing to bid a temporary farewell to one of the most celebrated masterpieces held in its collections. Raphael 's TheEcstasy of Saint Cecilia (Urbino, 1483 - Rome, 1520) will in fact be the protagonist of an ...
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Stolen memories: in Taranto, artifacts returned from New York's Metropolitan Museum

The National Archaeological Museum in Taranto is hosting from today, December 16, the exhibition Stolen Memories. Finds Recovered by the Carabinieri TPC Command, which displays a selection of ancient objects returned from abroad to Italy. Among the m...
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New York, Met reopens Rockefeller Wing: a journey through the arts of Africa, Ancient Americas and Oceania

A new era opens for New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art: after a four-year closure, theMichael C. Rockefeller Wing, or Rockefeller Wing, a nearly 4,000-square-foot exhibition area devoted entirely to the arts of Africa, the Americas, andOceania, is...
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