Showing posts with label Antiquities; Looting; Smuggling; Collecting; Collections; Italy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Antiquities; Looting; Smuggling; Collecting; Collections; Italy. Show all posts
November 1, 2024

Edoardo Almagià Wanted: Manhattan DA Seeks Arrest of Dealer in Major Antiquities Smuggling Case

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Just over a year ago, ARCA published a post highlighting  suspect artefacts which passed through Michael L. Ward's variously named galle...
October 14, 2024

Stolen Funerary Artefact Returns to Ad Decimum Catacombs

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Yesterday, a homecoming took place in Grottaferrata, Italy, marking the final passage in the return of an important marble funerary artefact...
September 12, 2022

Orpheus, the poet, and his two sirens are going home

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Back in August, ARCA wrote about a 11 August 2022 announcement made by the J. Paul Getty Museum where the museum publically stated its inten...
July 24, 2020

Restitution in the time of COVID-19: A fertility statuette representing a mother goddess returns to Iraq

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Modeled from clay and painted, this female figurine replete with voluptuous curves, and depicted naked and sitting with her arms folded ...
June 14, 2020

Remembering Paolo Giorgio Ferri

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Image Credit: Jason Felch It is with profound sadness that ARCA shares the news of today's passing of Paolo Giorgio Ferri, Italy...
March 5, 2020

🏺 How a 21st century art market resembles its 18th century counterpart: Lessons for collectors attending TEFAF Maastricht 2020

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"La vista dell'antiquario" 1788 by Jacques Sabet In Rome, in the late 1700s, the value of ancient art was far different f...
November 18, 2019

Carabinieri, EUROPOL , EUROJUST investigation, code named: "Achea"

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Image Credit:  Carabinieri TP NOTE: This article has been updated after the conclusion of the press conference.  Today at 10:30, the ...
November 20, 2018

How long does it take to achieve restitution of a looted antiquity? In some cases 25 years or more.

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PURCHASED           ACQ NUMBER          DESCRIPTION 29 February 1992          292.AA.10                  Statue of Zeus Enthroned ...
June 29, 2018

Seizure: An Etruscan Hare Aryballos circa 580-560 B.C.E.

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At the request of the Manhattan district attorney's office, the Hon. Ellen N. Biben, Administrative Judge of New York County Supreme...