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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Yale University has agreed to return thousands of Inca artifacts taken from Peru's famed Machu Picchu citadel almost a century ago, the government said Saturday.
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Italian officials said they will drop a civil lawsuit in the trial of former J. Paul Getty Museum curator Marion True after the Los Angeles institution formally signed a deal Tuesday to return 40 contested artifacts.
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The last two frescoes painted by the Renaissance master Michelangelo are to be restored, the Vatican says.
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Dozens of treasures from the Greek, Etruscan and Roman civilizations will go on display Friday in an exhibition featuring many of the ancient masterpieces recovered in Italy's campaign against illegal trafficking in antiquities.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art has agreed to pay more than $45 million for a small painting by the early Renaissance master Duccio di Buoninsegna.
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A New York sfilano gli&nbsp;stilisti italiani. Esplosione di colori, tessuti naturali e alto artigianato. Ma anche rigore e tonalit&agrave; calde
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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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Polish officials say that legal documents compiled in a new book bolster their ownership claim of drawings by Renaissance master Albrecht Durer that were looted by the Nazis during World War II.
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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.
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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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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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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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A statue and a gold wreath are to be returned to Greece by the Getty museum
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A fine arts gallery and federal prosecutors have reached an agreement to return a 17th-century carved altar piece to a rural Peruvian village church from where it was allegedly stolen.
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A tiny Umbrian village is taking on the mighty Metropolitan Museum in New York, claiming that one of its most exalted exhibits, an Etruscan chariot, was illegally exported from Italy 100 years ago.
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Da Vinci's masterpiece has been restored so many times over the years some purists argue that it's no longer a Da Vinci.