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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More than fifty years after its theft, the Madonna and Child by Antonio Solario (Chieti or Venice, c. 1465 - Naples, 1530), which had been stolen on the night of August 24-25, 1973, from the halls of the museum in the Dolomite capital along with seve...
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The Netherlands will return to Nigeria a total of 113 Benin bronzes in Dutch state collections. This decision was made by Minister of Education, Culture and Science Eppo Bruins: these are the objects from the ancient Kingdom of Benin (now part of pre...
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The United States will return as many as 107 ancient artifacts toItaly : this was announced in these hours by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg Jr. The total value of the artifacts amounts to 1.2 million euros: these objects were recovered a...
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The Metropolitan Museum in New York is preparing to return a valuable bronze griffin head from the 7th century B.C.E. to Greece : this was announced yesterday at a ceremony held at the American museum, where the Greek minister of culture, Lina Mendon...
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CouldItaly demand from France the return of all the works requisitioned during the Napoleonic spoliations that did not come back after the fall of Napoleon and that are still kept in French museums? This is a question that is often asked when one he...
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The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has returned to Turkey a valuable and rare kline, a bronze burial bed , that illegally left the country in the early 1980s. The object, datable to 530 B.C., was purchased by the Getty in 1982 from a Swiss art d...
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The Netherlands returns toIndonesia 288 objects from public collections that were brought to Europe during colonial times. "Unfairly," the Dutch government specifies: these are artifacts and works of art deemed to be of cultural interest to Indonesia...
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