Showing posts with label The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Show all posts
December 17, 2023

Lost Time, Found Art: The Decade-Long Pursuit of Restitution for Antiquities Smuggled by Douglas Latchford at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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In 2013 the Metropolitan Museum of Art restituted two,10th-century, Koh Ker stone statues, known as the “Kneeling Attendants” to Cambodia.  ...
January 31, 2018

ICOM releases its newest Red List for the country of Yemen in New York today

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For decades, ICOM – the International Council of Museums has continued its fight against illicit traffic in cultural goods with the ...
August 3, 2017

Opensource Reprint: Nekyia “A South Italian Bell-Krater by Python in the Metropolitan Museum of Art”

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Given the recent interest in the July 31, 2017 article in the New York Times regarding the Python bell-krater depicting Dionysos with Thyro...
August 1, 2017

Three years in the making: The case of “A South Italian Bell-Krater by Python in the Metropolitan Museum of Art” results in seizure.

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On June 1, 2014 this blog published a distilled version of an academic investigation which heavily documented details from an article in t...
June 1, 2014

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Python bell-krater acquired in 1989 matches object documented in confiscated Medici archive, according to forensic archaeologist Christos Tsirogiannis: "The evidence suggests that the vase has most likely been unlawfully removed from Italian soil"

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Medici polaroid of Python's bell-krater  The Classic Greek mixing-bowl attributed to the artist Python (active ca. 350 – 325 BC) o...