Stolen antiquities: Confrontations

Article Abstract:

Among the international disputes over cultural treasure, the most prominent issue covers Italy's ownership claim to the "Bronze Statue of a Victorious Youth" at the Getty museum in Los Angeles. Present confrontations include the protest by prominent figures from Italy's art world who blocked the government from loaning a painting for a show in Tokyo.

History

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Stolen antiquities: Italy clamps down on artifacts smuggling: Policy triggered by trial of Getty curator

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The Italian police investigating an art-smuggling case have charged nearly 50 people with selling of archeological treasures illegally to buyers in foreign countries in January 2007. Marion True, a former curator of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, is charged with conspiring to import stolen Italian antiquities, and is facing trial in Rome.

Government domestic functions, Cultural policy

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Stolen antiquities: Paying the piper

Article Abstract:

Marion True, former antiquities curator of the J. Paul Getty Museum is on trial in Rome on charges that she knowingly purchased stolen artifacts for the museum. The case has provoked global awareness of art smuggling and modified efforts to manage cultural treasures more efficiently.

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