Showing posts with label Switzerland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Switzerland. Show all posts
February 8, 2024

Reclaimed Heritage: A Cambodian Buddha Goes Home

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Seized by Swiss authorities in the Canton of Basel 10 years ago, this 18th or19th century (Khmer empire) Buddha, seated in vajraparyankasana...
February 10, 2023

A 2,500-year-old sculpture from the monumental ruins of Chavín de Huantar is returned to the Peruvian ambassador

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The site of Chavín de Huantar What we know about the monumental ruins of Chavín de Huantar , thousands of feet up in the Cordillera Blanca ,...
October 26, 2019

Conference Save the Date: Building a Responsible Art Market

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Event:  Building a Responsible Art Market Location:  Geneva, Switzerland Date: Saturday 30 January 2020 The Responsible Art Market (R...
October 8, 2018

Conference: Third All Art and Cultural Heritage Law Conference on “National Treasures: Limits to Private Property and Cross-Border Movements”

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The 3rd All Art and Cultural Heritage Law Conference on “National Treasures: Limits to Private Property and Cross-Border Movements”  wi...
October 10, 2017

Conference - Radiocarbon dating and protection of cultural heritage - C14 Meeting

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Organised by: ETH Zurich and University of Geneva, with a support of the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Swiss Commission for UN...
March 24, 2017

Repatriation: Roman sarcophagus held at Swiss Freeport finally clears last hurdle for its return to Turkey

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Image taken September 23, 2015 by the Office of the Attorney General of the Canton of Geneva - Image Credit: AFP In December 2010, Swi...
June 15, 2015

Pissaro's "Rue Saint-Honore in the Afternoon, Effect of Rain" and the laws applied to art restitution

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by Judge Arthur Tompkins In 1897 Camille Pissarro painted  Rue Saint-Honore in the Afternoon, Effect of Rain .  Forty years later, in ...
June 3, 2014

The Gurlitt Collection: Kunstmuseum Bern will proceed with assessment as to whether or not to accept their inheritance

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The Swiss museum Cornelius Gurlitt bequeathed his paintings will begin the process of deciding whether or not to accept the inheritance, t...
October 1, 2012

"Art Predators and The Rediscovered Heritage ... the story of recovery" at the National Etruscan Museum in Rome's Villa Giulia shows archaeological fruits of 20 year investigation

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Here's a link to a video showing an exhibit, "Art Predators and The Rediscovered Heritage .. the story of recovery",  at t...
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April 14, 2012

Associated Press: Serbian officials announce recovery of Degas painting stolen from Bührle Collection in 2008; Ransom paid one year after theft

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Degas' Ludovic Lepic and His Daughters/ Bürle by Catherine Sezgin, Editor-in-Chief Serbian officials announced this week that ...