Italy, Getty sign deal on return of artifacts
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ROME - Italian officials said they will drop a civil lawsuit in the trial of the J. Paul Getty Museum's former curator after the Los Angeles institution formally signed a deal yesterday to return 40 contested artifacts.
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A fund-raising campaign has saved a rare, richly illustrated medieval psalter from moving to the J. Paul Getty Museum, organizers said Monday.
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Archaeologists in England have uncovered a treasure trove of Roman artifacts, including a 1,700-year-old "curse tablet" that asks for divine vengeance for a stolen cloak.
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An Ethiopian national treasure, the  ancient Axum Obelisk that was plundered by Italian fascist  invaders in 1937, will be returned by Rome in April, Italy's  Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
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Italian officials said they will drop a civil lawsuit in the trial of the J. Paul Getty Museum's former curator after the Los Angeles institution formally signed a deal Tuesday to return 40 contested artifacts.
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Italy's culture minister on Thursday denounced the J. Paul Getty Museum's move to return 26 allegedly looted antiquities as a unilateral act that did not meet Rome's demand for a comprehensive agreement &#151; but he left the door open for further negotiations.
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Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, one of   several top U.S. museums accused of having looted antiquities   from Italy, on Thursday became the first to hand over suspect   artifacts to Rome.
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The pope won't be going to Istanbul, but in a gesture to the Orthodox Church he is returning the relics of two saints that were seized by Crusaders 800 years ago, Vatican officials said Thursday.
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One of the world's finest art collections has finally got the kind of clean, modern space that old masters such as Goya, Velazquez and El Greco deserve.
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A collection of artworks owned by John Paul Getty II sell for a total of Â£1.7m at Christie's in London.
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The Italian Culture Ministry and the Princeton University Art Museum signed a deal Tuesday for the return of eight disputed antiquities to Italy Â Rome's latest coup in its efforts to recover treasures it says were looted from the country.
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Italy will lend its artistic expertise to help conserve the famed Ajanta-Ellora cave paintings and sculptures in western India under an agreement signed on Monday.
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The last two frescoes painted by Renaissance master Michelangelo are to be restored to their original brilliance, the director general of the Vatican Museums said on Wednesday.
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OSLO -- Two years after the brazen daylight theft of national artistic treasures from a museum, police announced yesterday they recovered the Edvard Munch masterpieces ``The Scream" and ``Madonna."
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The Federal Bureau of  Investigation unveiled a new unit on Wednesday to tackle the  multi-billion dollar market in stolen art and announced the  FBI's first recovery of artifacts looted from Iraq after the  U.S. invasion.
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ROME, ITALY.- The Torlonia marbles, a collection of more than 600 statues and tombs, could soon be displayed in Italy.
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âPrayers and Portraits: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptychâ at the National Gallery of Art brings art historians and art conservators together in a project that is part salvage mission and part detective story.