MADRID (AP).- Spanish police have published a catalog of high value stolen art and precious objects in the hope of reuniting them with their rightful owners. Among items retrieved during raids are works by Pablo Picasso, sculpture, rare archaeological…
Rutger’s Zimmerli Art Museum Returns Rare Renaissance Portrait to Rightful Owners
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ.- On Friday, January 14, 2011, the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University handed over a rare early 16th-century portrait by the German artist Hans Baldung Grien to Simon Goodman, the Los Angeles-based grandson of Friedrich and Loui…
Zimmerli Art Museum Returns Rare Renaissance Portrait to Rightful Owners
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ.- On Friday, January 14, 2011, the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University handed over a rare early 16th-century portrait by the German artist Hans Baldung Grien to Simon Goodman, the Los Angeles-based grandson of Friedrich and Loui…
Recovery of Painting by Albrecht Dürer Leads Italian Police to Various Pieces of Stolen Art
ROME.- Sixteen paintings that had been stolen at various times from private homes and churches will be back by Christmas, to their rightful owners. The works of art seized by police in September for the protection of cultural heritage have been recover…
Austria Returns 7 Looted Works of Art to Their Rightful Owners or Heirs
VIENNA (AP).-A panel has recommended that seven paintings by Austrian artists contained in a prestigious Vienna art collection be returned because they were either seized by the Nazis or given up against the will of their Jewish owners. The paintings &…
Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa Wants Yale University to Return Artifacts to Peru
LOJA (REUTERS).- Ecuador’s president on Tuesday threw his support behind demands by neighboring Peru for Yale University to return thousands of artifacts removed from the Inca site of Machu Picchu a century ago for study at the U.S. university. The Per…
Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa Wants Yale University to Return Artifacts to Peru
LOJA (REUTERS).- Ecuador’s president on Tuesday threw his support behind demands by neighboring Peru for Yale University to return thousands of artifacts removed from the Inca site of Machu Picchu a century ago for study at the U.S. university. The Per…
Ecuador Wants Yale to Return Artifacts to Peru
LOJA (REUTERS).- Ecuador’s president on Tuesday threw his support behind demands by neighboring Peru for Yale University to return thousands of artifacts removed from the Inca site of Machu Picchu a century ago for study at the U.S. university. The Per…
Rudolf Leopold, Austrian Art Collector, Dies Today at 85
VIENNA (AP).- Rudolf Leopold, who assembled Austria’s largest private art collection, including works allegedly stolen by the Nazis, died Tuesday at the age of 85. Leopold died at a hospital in the Austrian capital after suffering multiple organ failur…