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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Important restitution for Turkey's cultural heritage: in fact, after 65 years, the bronze statue of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius that was looted from the ancient city of Boubon in Burdur, western Turkey, in the 1960s, has been returned to the co...
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