The VFMA exhibition catalogue for 'The Horse in Ancient Greek Art' has been reviewed by Carl Shaw in BMCR. The review does not consider the wider issues of the histories of the objects, with previous handlers including Nicolas Koutoulakis, Walter M. Banko in Montreal, Edoardo Almagià, and Fritz Bürki.
These issues have been discussed in some detail in the Journal of Art Crime earlier this year [see previous post].
Discussion of the archaeological ethics surrounding the collecting of antiquities and archaeological material.
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Lions from the archaic Panionion
Source: MMA In 1992 three terracotta antefixes decorated with the heads of lions were acquired by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art ...
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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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