Showing posts with label Matthew Bogdanos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Matthew Bogdanos. Show all posts
August 12, 2022

Raffaele Monticelli's connection to Bank Leu A.G. and to the Getty Villa's "Seated Musician and Sirens" AKA Orpheus and the Sirens

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In a tightly worded announcement made on 11 August 2022 the J. Paul Getty Museum revealed that it will finally relinquish its nearly-lifesiz...
April 4, 2022

The sometimes slow and sometimes fast return of historical artefacts pillaged from Libya

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Cyrene, Northern Necropolis. The Sculptured Tomb/Cassels from Pacho 1827 Parallel with the start of the First Libyan Civil War, the Security...
July 21, 2021

A "Homeland" welcome for Neil Perry-Smith in New York

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  We are standing in front of a single-piece sand-stone sculpture of a serenely smiling cross-legged Shiva being worshipped by the small, du...
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April 20, 2021

Restitution: Manhattan and US authorities hand over 33 artefacts stolen from the the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

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Image Credit - HSI ICE Afghanistan, one of the world’s poorest countries, has been plagued by war and corruption.  That vulnerability has lo...
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Restitution: Manhattan and US authorities hand over three 13 - 16th century CE artefacts stolen from the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal.

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One week after its last restitution, on the first of April, the Consulate General of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal in New York re...
November 15, 2019

Revisiting the case of the marble head of Alexander the Great as Helios, the Sun God

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Sotheby's Website Screen Capture taken 24 July 2018 This week journalist John Russell, of Courthouse News Service , reported tha...
January 20, 2019

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Stolen 80 years ago , a section of an Achaemenid-era (550-330 BC) bas-relief, once part of a long line of rock-carved soldiers displaye...