Returns - Finestre sull'Arte

France passes law on the restitution of works stolen in colonial times

France is taking a significant step in the long and complex journey of restitution of cultural property stolen during the colonial era. On the night of April 12-13, the Assemblée nationale unanimously approved a bill concerning the restitutio...
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Zurich returns eleven works from the Kingdom of Benin to Nigeria

The city of Zurich has decided to transfer to the Federal Republic of Nigeria the ownership of eleven works from the Kingdom of Benin that are stored at the Museum Rietberg. The decision, formalized last Friday, March 20, is a significant step in the...
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Who really owns the destroyed or stolen works? For a hypothesis of "cultural hospitality"

To enter a major European museum is often to experience a contradiction. On the one hand, wonder: Greek statues that do not seem to have lost an iota of their power, intact Egyptian sarcophagi, gleaming African bronzes. On the other the doubt that cr...
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Bologna, a rare Etruscan bronze stolen in 1963 returned to the Archaeological Museum

An important piece ofEtruscan art returns to Bologna's public collections. Yesterday, in the Conference Room of Bologna's Museo Civico Archeologico, the commander of the Nucleo Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturale of Bologna, Carmelo Carraffa, off...
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USA, Smithsonian returns three Cambodian sculptures to their country of origin

The Smithsonian 's National Museum of Asian Art in Washington , U.S., has announced the return of three Cambodian sculptures to the Kingdom of Cambodia, marking the museum's first repatriation under the "Shared Management and Ethical Return Policy" a...
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The Netherlands will return to Egypt a head from the dynasty of Thutmose III

Netherlands Prime Minister Dick Schoof has announced that the Netherlands will return toEgypt an ancient stone head dating back to the dynasty of Thutmose III. The find, described as an important artifact of Egyptian historical heritage, had been sei...
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Van Gogh's Sunflowers dispute: collector's heirs demand return of work

One of the versions of Vincent van Gogh 's Sunflowers (Zundert, 1853 - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1890) is at the center of an international dispute: it is one of the six canvases (originally seven, one was destroyed) belonging to the Arles series, specificall...
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US, stop sale of two paintings stolen by Nazis: they will return to heirs

The auction sale of two 17th-century Dutch paintings that were stolen by the Nazis during World War II has been blocked in the United States . This was achieved by the Monuments Men and Women Foundation, a nonprofit that aims to raise global awarenes...
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