Getty Museum to repatriate rare artefacts to Greece
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Greece can expect the return of two ancient masterpieces, including a 4th century BCE gold funerary wreath, under an agreement with California's J. Paul Getty Museum, announced on Monday.Comment
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Greece has agreed to loan London's British Museum a collection of priceless Minoan-era antiquities for an exhibition to be held by 2009, the Greek culture ministry has said.
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Greece's top religious leader asked Pope Benedict on Thursday to return a piece of the Parthenon in the Vatican Museums, Greek officials said.
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OSLO -- The weekly magazine Se og Hoer offered a $14,800 reward yesterday for information leading to the return of two priceless Edvard Munch masterpieces stolen from an Oslo museum over the weekend. The city-owned Munch Museum reopened yesterday, two days after three masked robbers, including at least one with a pistol, snatched ''The Scream&quot; and ''Madonna&quot; and fled in ...
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With the reopening of the Bode Museum, a cultural park in the former East Berlin has taken another step toward recovering its place as one of the worldÂs great centers of art.
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A major loan exhibition of Berniniâs sculptures, paintings and drawings is headed for the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles this summer.
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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 and the Princeton University Art Museum have reached a deal to return some artifacts Rome says were smuggled out of the country, the latest chapter in Italy's campaign to crack down on the illegal antiquities market.
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Tens of thousands of artefacts salvaged from a sunken ship off Java's coast in Indonesia are to be auctioned.
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Talks between Italy and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles over 52 art works that Rome says were looted have hit an impasse after the museum said it was prepared to return only half of them.
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An ancient stone coffin and sculpture of a lion's head have been returned to Greece after being handed over by private owners in the United States, the Culture Ministry said Wednesday.
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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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Italy has asked the New York collector Shelby White to consider returning more than 20 ancient artifacts that it argues were illegally mined from its soil.
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After nearly a year of negotiations, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has agreed to return a rare fourth-century B.C. gold funerary wreath to Greece that cultural officials there contend was illegally removed from Greek soil.
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Greek authorities will launch an ambitious effort next month to replant the blackened wasteland left behind by the summer's deadly wildfires around the birthplace of the ancient Olympics.
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At the Getty Institute, conservators work to preserve art constructed out of an ever-expanding array of synthetic products.
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The J. Paul Getty Museum announced on Monday that it had agreed to hand over an ancient gold funerary wreath and a marble statue that were illegally excavated and removed from Greece.