Showing posts with label giacomo medici. Show all posts
Showing posts with label giacomo medici. Show all posts
January 29, 2026

Ancient Women, Modern Crime: How Etruscan Women Were Trafficked Across the World

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I have long been fascinated by the reddish-buff clay figures of barefoot women placed along the eaves of ancient Etruscan roofs. Dressed in ...
October 20, 2025

The Aboutaam Brothers, Phoenix Ancient Art, and the Hidden Routes of Italy’s Lost Antiquities

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Phoenix Ancient Art - BRAFA 2019  With a precautionary seizure order, filed by the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office, led by Prosecutor St...
September 6, 2022

Museum restitutions are more than just the sum of their numbers

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Image Credit - HSI - ICE On 21 February 2006 the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Italian government signed an agreement under which the M...
April 8, 2022

What about the well known looted vases in the Altes Museum in Berlin?

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Left: Medici Archive Polaroid with fragments of the Crater of Persephone, attributed to the Painter of the Underworld, Right: 4th century BC...
February 28, 2022

Will an international rogatory finally bring Italy's treasures home from the Altes Museum?

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Apulian vases Antikensammlung Berlin - Accession no. 1984.39-59 Anyone who admires the moveable heritage of Magna Graecia and Apulian red-fi...
July 30, 2020

Restitution: Lot 448, Christie's

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Early last November we wrote a blog post asking Christie's about an interesting polychrome painted 5th century BCE antefix in the f...