The Met May Have Millions in Stolen Art. It’s Not Waiting to Be Asked to Return It.
The museum is taking the lead on re-evaluating its art and artifacts to determine where these works came from in the first ...
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Art: The Bronze Menagerie
The bronze beasts battled for their lives on their ... who later mistakenly gave up sculpture for painting. Eventually Barye got a sinecure as professor of animal drawing at the Paris zoological ...
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Claudel bronze sculpture found by chance fetches €3 million at France auction
Art historians see evocations of both the cycle ... He landed on the work by chance when lifting a dust sheet. “This bronze, which had been lost for over a century, is of stunning quality ...
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Metropolitan Museum repatriates ancient bronze griffin head that was stolen from Greek institution
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning a bronze griffin’s head from the seventh century BC to Greece after it was found to have been stolen from a museum there in the 1930s. The cast-bronze ...
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Cleveland Museum of Art will return looted Greco-Roman bronze to Turkey
The Cleveland Museum of Art will return a headless Greco-Roman bronze statue that was pillaged from the ancient city of Bubon in south-central Turkey. The larger-than-life statue of a draped male ...