Princeton to Return Disputed Art to Italy
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Princeton University announced on Friday that its art museum had reached an agreement to return eight ancient works to Italy that the Italian government says were looted and illicitly exported.
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American museums are returning some of the world's great antiquities to their original homes. Should they? A new debate over who owns the past is underway.
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The J. Paul Getty Museum on Monday settled a decade-old cultural heritage dispute with Greece, agreeing to hand over two ancient treasures that Athens claims were illegally spirited out of the country.
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A Vincenzo Maria Pellegrini painting was donated to Bank of Valletta. The presentation of the painting was made by Gabriel A. Pellegrini to BOV Chairman, Joseph F X Zahra.
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Going, going, gone? Not if Italy's police can stop renowned auction house Christie's from selling a painting they believe was stolen from an art shop in Rome.
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Greece vowed Thursday to reclaim the country's plundered heritage after two sculptures were returned by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
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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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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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Pray or pay. At dozens of Italian churches struggling to preserve art treasures from Byzantine mosaics to Baroque paintings, that is the choice many visitors must make.
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An Italian art restorer said she has identified a painting long thought to be a copy of a Caravaggio masterpiece, "St. Jerome Writing," as an authentic work of the Baroque master.
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Italian museum specialists might install a stream of gushing air around Michelangelo's David to protect the Renaissance masterpiece from dust tracked in by tourists, an official said Monday.
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Analyzing 500-year-old bricks, engineers in California are searching for a lost Leonardo da Vinci fresco that some researchers believe is behind a wall in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio.
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Modern renaissance man Maurizio Seracini wants to find Leonardo's Battle of Anghiari. His organization Editech uses high-tech tools to track down historic Italian works of art that the years have hidden from the public eye.
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Police in Italy warn of the growth in the number of art works illegally being taken out of the country.
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More than 20 paintings by European masters hanging in galleries in the Czech Republic should be returned to the Canadian heirs of the Jewish man who collected them, a judge ruled Wednesday.
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Can't get to Milan to see Leonardo Da Vinci's masterpiece "The Last Supper?"
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Leonardo Da Vinci's sketch for the background of his painting, "Adoration of the Magi," will be displayed publicly outside of his native Italy for the first time on Thursday at the Library of Congress.