Showing posts with label art restitution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art restitution. Show all posts
December 3, 2023

Claiming Legacies: Italy, Germany, and the Post-WWII Ownership Battle for the Discobolus

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Image Credit: Exhibition Arte Liberata 1937-1947: Masterpieces Saved from War. This past week Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper stir...
February 23, 2023

77 looted artefacts to the Republic of Yemen and a well known Brooklyn dealer

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On February 21, 2023 the United States restituted 77 looted artefacts to the Republic of Yemen via its Embassy in Washington DC.  This marks...
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 ,...
September 3, 2022

Restitution: A timeline of one black stone stela of Durga

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The Supreme shakti, Maa Durga,  an incarnation of Goddess Parvati, the daughter of Himavan, the lord of the mountains. She is the mother-god...
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...

Restitution: Manhattan and US authorities hand over two Kandyan Period artefacts depicting the Lord Buddha in Abhaya Mudra stolen from the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka

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As can be seen, by the restitutions accomplished via Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance's team over the last month, New York continues...
March 12, 2021

Conference: "Violated national heritage: theft, trafficking and restitution"

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Event:   Violated national heritage: theft, trafficking and restitution Organizer:  The Society for the History of Collecting Registration F...
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January 20, 2021

Restitution: Belgian authorities hand over a 1st century BCE Roman statue stolen from Rome in 2011

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Today, authorities from the General Directorate of the Economic Inspection of the SPF Economie in Belgium turned over a lifesize 1st century...
December 14, 2020

Voluntary Restitution of Indian Annapurna, the Hindu Goddess of food and nourishment, by University of Regina in Canada.

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Image Credit:  Dona Hall, courtesy of MacKenzie Art Gallery Figure of Annapoorna (Benares, India, 18th century), artist unknown, stone, 17.3...