Showing posts with label UK. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UK. Show all posts
April 20, 2024

Christ Church Picture Gallery painting by Baroque painter Salvator Rosa recovered in Romania

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On 19 April 2024 Christ Church,  a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England,  announced the recovery of one of thre...
October 6, 2020

Rare Books in an Even Rarer Recovery

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On 29 January 2017 an organized crime group from Romania targeted and robbed over 200 rare books from a warehouse in Feltham, West London.  ...
June 4, 2020

Revisiting the UK's Dealing in Cultural Objects (Offences) Act of 2003

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The Torbryan rood screen This Friday ARCA reviews one of the few successful cases of prosecution using the UK's Dealing in Cultura...
April 25, 2020

Christ Church loans and other Dirk Obbink answered and unanswered questions.

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In an article in today's UK Times, the London newspaper reported that a review of Christ Church college's annual reports indicat...
April 18, 2020

Censorship by the Oxford University or by Dirk Obbink's law team?

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On 16 April Lois Helsop at The Oxford Blue broke the news of that Thames Valley police had arrested American papyrologist Dr. Dirk Obbin...
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March 16, 2020

Museum Theft: Three Baroque paintings stolen from Christ Church, University of Oxford

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Image Credit:  Thames Valley Police Three Baroque Period paintings have been stolen from the  Christ Church Picture Gallery , an art mu...
October 5, 2019

The Manchester Museum and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies restitute 43 ceremonial and sacred objects

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Engraving of the Museum Wormianum from 1655 (via Wikimedia) Responsible for some of the material since the 1920s, the Manchester Museum...
September 15, 2019

Museum Theft: Literally taking the piss, a $4.9m golden lavatory has been stolen from Blenheim Palace

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Pre-installation view, "America, 2016" by Maurizio Cattelan arriving at Blenheim Palace, 2019 Image Credit Blenheim Palace ...
October 13, 2018

Restitution: Two Etruscan Objects returned to Italy from Great Britain

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Image Credit:  ARCA From Left to Right - Brigadier General Fabrizio Parrulli, Commander of the Italian Carabinieri Command for the Protect...
October 10, 2018

Trial dates tentatively set for December 2018 for 19 "Operation Demetra" defendants

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Judges from the Tribunale del Riesame di Caltanissetta, the court of first instance with general jurisdiction in criminal matters withi...
August 8, 2018

Sicilian judges reject appeal made by William Veres

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Screenshot of William Veres from the documentary “The Hunt for Transylvanian Gold Judges from the Tribunale del Riesame di Caltanisset...