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Italy’s Court of Cassation rejects the J. Paul Getty Museum’s appeal against the lower court ruling on the Getty Bronze

by Edgar Tijhuis | 3 Dec 2018

On Monday, Italy’s Cassation Court rejected the J. Paul Getty Museum’s appeal against the lower court ruling in Pesaro, issued by Magistrate Giacomo Gasparini.  That earlier ruling, issued on June 08, 2018, was in favour of the prosecution’s request for seizure...

3 Men and a Painting: Savvy accomplices make off with “Golfe, Mer, Falaises Vertes” by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

by Edgar Tijhuis | 29 Nov 2018

Entering Vienna’s oldest auction house, the Dorotheum, just after sunset, three well-dressed men in jackets and coats, working in tandem are believed to have made off with a landscape painted by Pierre-Auguste Renoir titled Golfe, Mer, Falaises Vertes (English:...

Recovered: “Portrait of Marta Ghezzi Baldinotti” stolen 32 years ago from Palazzo Chigi

by Edgar Tijhuis | 28 Nov 2018

  The team of the Carabinieri del Nucleo Tutela Patrimonio Culturale (TPC) in Palermo, under the command of Magg. Luigi Mancuso, has proven once again that patience makes perfect when it comes to the recovery of stolen art.  While the squad has not yet recovered...

How long does it take to achieve restitution of a looted antiquity? In some cases 25 years or more

by Edgar Tijhuis | 20 Nov 2018

PURCHASED            ACQ NUMBER          DESCRIPTION 29 February 1992      292.AA.10              Statue of Zeus Enthroned   On October 27, 2018 a first century BCE, marble statue of Zeus, seated on his throne, finally moved to its permanent home, the...

Recovered? Anonymous tip may have lead to Picasso’s “Tete d’Arlequin” stolen from the Kunsthal in Rotterdam in 2012

by Save Art | 18 Nov 2018

On October 16, 2012 Dutch police confirmed that seven paintings had been stolen, shortly after 3 a.m. local time, from the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam.  The paintings which were taken, Pablo Picasso’s Tete d’Arlequin, Henri Matisse’s La Liseuse en...

Recoverable or Not? The sale of the Assyrian gypsum relief of a winged Genius, reign of Ashurnasirpal II, circa 883-859 BCE

by Edgar Tijhuis | 30 Oct 2018

In March 2015, the Iraqi government formally announced that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIL had purposefully destroyed much of the Northwest Palace of King Ashurnasirpal II as part of their iconoclastic program of obliterating preislamic cultural...
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