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...towers above visitors. Created around 2000 years ago, "Eirene" is an awe-inspiring piece of Greek antiquity, which constitutes a point of great pride for the museum. But she won’t be there for patrons to admire for much longer: the statue is on loan from the Italian government, and will be reclaimed...
TELLING THE TRUE-TH? In the 1970s, the government of Italy began demanding that American museums return art that they believed had been looted from Italian soil. But for years, domestic museums refused to comply unless Italy could provide substantial evidence that these items had been acquired through illicit means...
...Italian government got a truckload of evidence when its national police force raided the warehouse of Giacomo Medici, finding records of the pieces he had acquired from looters. The government sued Medici and fellow art dealer Robert Hecht for trafficking in stolen antiquities, and 10 years later, Marion True, a curator at the Getty Museum, was charged with being a co-conspirator. As the Getty Museum’s curator of antiquities since 1986, True allegedly purchased tens of millions of dollars’ worth of Greek and Etruscan artifacts from Hecht and Medici...
True met Hecht while working at the MFA’s department of classical art, before she attended Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In the same year that True was charged, the MFA was accused of possessing looted artifacts through dealings with Hecht, whom Italian investigators suspected of selling or giving the museum more than 1,000 artifacts, all possibly stolen...
...September 2006, after negotiations between the Italian government and the MFA, the museum transferred possession of 13 objects back to Italy. In return, the Italian government promised future collaborative efforts with the museum, including loans of cultural significance. The colossal "Eirene" is the first of these loans, and a fitting gesture: Eirene is the goddess of peace...