Thursday,
November 20, 2008
The
ANNOTICO Report
Francesco
Rutelli,
Report says
Italy may Press Art Museum for Antiquities
Plain
Dealer
Steven
Litt, Art Critic
November
19, 2008
Italian cultural authorities have said publicly for several years that the
Cleveland Museum of Art owns looted antiquities that should be returned to
An article in
Friday
But Timothy Rub,
director of the
Rub added that
should such a contact occur, "we would of course be perfectly willing to
enter into conversations with
Rutelli
Some of the
objects were purchased by the
Last year, Paolo Ferri, the prosecutor in the case against True and Hecht,
said that court documents mention the Cleveland Museum of Art in connection
with the charges against the dealer. But Ferri said
he knew of no plans by the Italian government to bring formal charges against
the museum.
The
In 1995, Italian
police uncovered evidence in a raid on a warehouse in
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