I have been reviewing the literature on looted antiquities (see preliminary bibliography here). The looting of archaeological sites in Italy ranges from Karl Meyer's The Plundered Past, to Chasing Aphrodite by Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino. Yet the key commentaries are Peter Watson's, Sotheby's: Inside Story and (with Celia Todeschini) The Medici Conspiracy, along with Vernon Silver's The Lost Chalice. Alongside these stands Fabio Isman's I predatori dell'arte perduta.
Discussion of the archaeological ethics surrounding the collecting of antiquities and archaeological material.
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An Analysis of the Stern Collection of Cycladicising Art
The loan exhibition of the Leonard N. Stern collection of Cycladicising art at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has been drawing mu...
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Source: Sotheby's A marble head of Alexander the Great has been seized in New York (reported in " Judge Orders Return of Ancien...
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Tarentine funerary relief Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art The Manhattan DA has provided limited details about the recent return of antiqu...
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If international museums can no longer "own" antiquities either through purchase on the antiquities market or through partage , wh...
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wow, that looks like my library, I have to say atleast half I have acquired as well as read. Wonderful subject with far-reaching cultural ramifications.
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