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Subject: MSN-list Digest, Vol 5, Issue 47 (fwd)
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 18:22:24 -0500 (EST)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 23:57:48 +0100 From: msn-list-request@te.verweg.com Reply-To: msn-list@te.verweg.com To: msn-list@te.verweg.com Subject: MSN-list Digest, Vol 5, Issue 47 Send MSN-list mailing list submissions to msn-list@te.verweg.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://duvel.te.verweg.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/msn-list or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to msn-list-request@te.verweg.com You can reach the person managing the list at msn-list-owner@te.verweg.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of MSN-list digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Met Sending Euphronios Vase to Italy, Ending 30-Year Dispute (Museum Security Network Mailinglist) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 23:52:55 +0100 From: Museum Security Network Mailinglist <msn-list@te.verweg.com> Subject: [MSN] Met Sending Euphronios Vase to Italy, Ending 30-Year Dispute To: list@museum-security.org Message-ID: <0IU300FC00W9R8@smtp16.wxs.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii February 2, 2006 Met Sending Vase to Italy, Ending 30-Year Dispute By RANDY KENNEDY Reversing its position of more than 30 years, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that it would relinquish ownership of a 2,500-year-old Greek vase, one of the finest in the world, to the Italian government, which has long contended that the vase was stolen from an Etruscan tomb and smuggled from the country. In documents delivered today by the Met's lawyers in Rome, the museum pledged to return the vase and 19 other disputed antiquities after weeks of negotiations with Italy, which will now consider the offer. Under the proposal, the vase, 15 pieces of Sicilian silver and four other ancient vessels would be returned to Italy in exchange for long-term loans of other prized antiquities, and the Met would assert that the objects were all acquired in good faith. The vase - known as a krater, once used to mix wine and water - was painted by Euphronios, considered the greatest of Greek vase painters. When the Met bought it in 1972 for more than $1 million from a dealer whose practices were already under scrutiny, its appearance stunned the art world, and Italy almost immediately began an investigation with help in the United States from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Over the years, the case - of its kind, perhaps second only to the dispute between Greece and Great Britain over the Elgin marbles - became emblematic of the ethical questions surrounding the acquisition of ancient art by major museums. In recent years, the Italian government has begun pursuing antiquities cases more aggressively, and in 2002 it indicted Marion True, the antiquities curator of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, on charges of trafficking in looted objects. Ms. True, who resigned last year, is now on trial, along with Robert Hecht, the American dealer who sold the Euphronios krater and the silver objects to the Met. The Italians also began to focus on objects in the Met's collection that it believed had been looted, and Italy later issued subpoenas for information from the Met. Last February, the Met requested a meeting with Italian officials and in November, Philippe de Montebello, the museum's director, met in Rome with Rocco Buttiglione, Italy's cultural minister, to hammer out the outlines of a deal. It remains unclear when the Euphronios vase and the other objects would return to Italy under the Met's proposal. http://www.nytimes.com/ ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ MSN-list mailing list MSN-list@te.verweg.com http://duvel.te.verweg.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/msn-list End of MSN-list Digest, Vol 5, Issue 47 ***************************************