sabato 2 novembre 2013

Recupero di 6 opere Etrusche

Dallas museum 

returns 

stolen antiquities to Italy


The Dallas Museum of Art has agreed to return six antiquities that were looted illegally from Italy.

Dallas museum returns antiquities to Italy
Two Etruscan shields with the head of Acheloos, 6th Century BC
[Credit: Dallas Museum of Art]
In exchange, Italy is loaning the Dallas museum treasures from the Spina necropolis housed at the Ferrara archaeological museum.

Dallas museum returns antiquities to Italy
Volute Krater, Apulia, 4th Century BC
[Credit: Dallas Museum of Art]
Italy's culture ministry announced the agreement Thursday. The objects being returned include Etruscan-era kraters - vases - and a pair of bronze shields.

Dallas museum returns antiquities to Italy
A Red Figure krater, Apulia, 4th Century BC
[Credit: Dallas Museum of Art]
The ministry's press office said that unlike past negotiations with U.S. museums, which involved threatened or real legal action to recover looted antiquities, Dallas museum director Maxwell Anderson spontaneously offered to return the items after the museum couldn't determine their provenance.

Dallas museum returns antiquities to Italy
Etruscan head of an Antefix, c.500 BC
[Credit: Dallas Museum of Art]
Italy launched an aggressive campaign a decade ago to retrieve looted artifacts. Its most famous recovery is the Euphronios Krater from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Source: The Associated Press [October 31, 2013]