Poland insists on the return of the paintings from the Pushkin Museum of Fine

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in Italy showed the returned antiquities in the amount of 19.5 million

Italian police on June 16 in Coliseum presented more than 300 ancient objects back to the country of Switzerland on June 25. The total value of items is about 19,5 million dollars. It is reported by Bloomberg.
In total, the Italian authorities have received 337 ancient artifacts. The dating of various items ranging from 8 century BC to 4 centuries of our era. As the AFP, these include ceramic vases and cups, copper, iron surgical instruments, fragments of frescoes, and marble statue of Venus.

According to Bloomberg, the objects were returned as a result of a joint operation by Italian and Swiss police. Values voluntarily gave authorities a Japanese collector, after he was presented with evidence that they were illegally exported from Italy. Meanwhile, AFP reports that the artifacts were seized in Geneva, the British art dealer Robin Simes (Robin Symes), known to be associated with "black archeology".


http://www.lenta.ru/news/2010/07/17/antiquities/

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Italy has stopped the prosecution of former Getty Museum curator

Italian police have stopped investigating the case against the former curator of the American Getty Museum Marion True (Marion True), the Associated Press on Wednesday, October 13. True, who oversaw many years antique Front Getty Museum, has been accused of illegally exported from Italy's cultural treasures.
As explained to the Italian lawyers True, investigation into their client terminated due to expiration of statute of limitations. It is expected that in the near future will be decided by and the termination of the prosecution of American art dealer Robert Hecht (Robert Hecht), held the accused in the same case as the True.

Marion True has become the focus of loud international scandal in the early 2000's, when it became clear that dozens of ancient artifacts from the Getty Museum have dubious origins. According to Italian law, in force since 1939, with the country banned the export of any art without the sanction of the state. A similar ban is registered in the UNESCO Convention for the Protection of Monuments, which the U.S. signed in 1983. However, private collectors and several museums, as it turned out, evaded the ban, pointing out that exported from Italy works of art were discovered before 1939 and purchased from antique dealers.

An investigation carried out by Italian law enforcement agencies, as well as internal audit found that Marion True was aware of dubious origin items purchased by the Getty Museum, but knowingly gave permission for their purchase. Following Italy's similar claims against the Getty Museum has brought, and Greece.

The criminal case against Marion True was instituted in Italy in 2004. True, the then curator of the ancient department of the Getty, was accused of illegally exported from the territory of 35 works of art. A second defendant in this case was an American art dealer Robert Hecht, who helped True, according to the investigation, issue the export values.

In 2005, Marion True resigned from his post as curator of the ancient department of the Getty, and officially her departure was not related to the scandal because of the exportation of cultural property. It was announced that True resigned due to the fact that it was unable to explain where it came from the funds to buy houses in one of the Greek islands. The charges leveled against her by Italian law enforcement agencies charged with the illegal exportation of cultural property to True categorically rejected.

In the midst of a scandal Getty Museum, the Metropolitan and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts agreed to return Italy and Greece, dozens of exhibits from their collections, the legality of the acquisition of which was doubted. However, most controversial works of art remain in the collections of American museums.

http://lenta.ru/news/2010/10/14/italy/

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In the Internet there is a list of stolen Nazi values

In the Internet on Oct. 18 opened to access the database objects of art looted by the Nazis during World War II, reports Associated Press. In the list of nearly 20,000 objects, taken from occupied Belgium and France in 1940-44, respectively.
Feature of this database is that it does not just contain information about the paintings or sculptures, but consists of digitized archives of the Second World War. In these documents, in addition to guidance on this or that stolen piece of art, it also contains photos, information about who was his master, and that if he was returned to him.

Creating a database by the Association of Jewish Material Claims Against Germany and the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. At its formation we used the data of the National Archives U.S. Bundesarhiva, as well as other German and French archives.

According to the authors list, during the Second World War the German-occupied territories were deported nearly 650,000 works of art. In this case, the Association of Jewish Material Claims Against Germany believes that the 20 000 described in the database, values about half have not yet returned to their rightful owners.

The question of restitution of cultural property in recent years is particularly acute in connection with the numerous scandals in the media. The heirs of the owners of some of the paintings, now preserved in museums, from time to time declare to them the right, which leads to a multimillion-dollar suits and loud trials.

http://www.lenta.ru/news/2010/10/18/database/


Database of looted art

The Association of Jewish Material Claims Against Germany

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In the list of nearly 20,000 objects, taken from occupied Belgium and France in 1940-44, respectively.

It is a pity that it is not from Russia ..

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Japan has agreed to return the cultural treasures of South Korea

Tokyo and Seoul reached an agreement in principle on the return of South Korean cultural property removed from the country during the Japanese occupation of 1910-1945 years, according to Japanese news agency Kyodo on Tuesday, November 9.
South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan (Kim Sung-hwan) and his Japanese counterpart, Seiji Maehara (Seiji Maehara) reached an agreement during a telephone conversation on Monday. The exact date of the return values to his homeland until it is called, since the contract still must be approved by the parliaments of both countries.

Japan intends to return to South Korea more than 1200 cultural values, most of which were ancient books. In particular, it will be returned are stored in Japan last minutes of the Korean Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910). This collection of documents and illustrations devoted to the royal ceremonial, it is known as "Uigve" and placed in the register of UNESCO.

There are about 4000 books "Uigve. It is believed that in Japan is 167 of them, including 81 original book were stolen from a Buddhist temple in 1922. In South Korea, is 3563 royal books.

Prime Minister of Japan, Naoto Kan apologized to Koreans in August 2010, the day the 100-year anniversary of the occupation. Kahn promised to return the royal books and other cultural values.

Earlier, Japan announced that all compensation for the occupation were stipulated in the agreement in 1965, when Seoul was returned to 1432 units of cultural values.

http://www.lenta.ru/news/2010/11/09/retour/

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Egypt demanded that Germany's bust of Nefertiti

Egyptian authorities appealed to Germany on an official demanding the return of the bust of Nefertiti, reports Bloomberg. Letter with your request led the Foundation of Prussian Cultural Heritage Hermann Parzinger General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Zahi Hawass of Egypt.
Return the bust of Nefertiti, Egypt is trying for more than 80 years. This bust was found by German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt in 1912. It is believed that he was taken out of Egypt deception: Borchardt allegedly misled the local inspector, describing the bust as a minor finding.

In 1935, German authorities agreed to return to Egypt the famous artifact, but Adolf Hitler reversed this decision. Active struggle for the return of the bust was resumed under the supervision of Zahi Hawass, who first demanded that Germany return the artifact in 2005, but was refused. In 2007, he tried to get a bust for display at the exhibition, but he was also denied.

Hawass is actively working to return not only the bust of Nefertiti, but other exported from the country's archaeological treasures. Among them are the Rosetta stone, which is stored in the UK, the ceiling of the temple of Dendera (Louvre), as well as a statue Hafraanha (Boston Museum of Fine Arts). One of the goals of this work is to increase the tourist appeal of Egypt.

According to the Ministry of Culture of Egypt relied upon Bloomberg, in tourism employs about 13 percent of the working population of the country. In addition, tourism - one of the main sources of foreign currency for Egypt: in 2009 the country earned on tourists from abroad, 10.8 billion dollars.

http://www.lenta.ru/news/2011/01/24/nefertiti/

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nikolai nesterenko, good den.a why Greece is not present in Italy the right to antique things and at the same time should not require kompensatsii.dalee medieval war looting of valuables and even Napoleon, and so it.p.