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...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...
...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...
...this loan will only last three years—a reminder of the tenuous nature of this new peace. Museum collections may be forced to change in scope and character, particularly as more hotspots for looting are revealed. Museums, archaeologists, dealers, and foreign governments face the dilemma of finding collaborative ways to prevent looting...
Peru wasn’t the only country that took issue with an Ivy League museum. Following an investigation by the Italian government, the Princeton University Art Museum sent three ancient objects back to Italy in October 2006 and adopted a more conservative acquisition policy. Princeton spokeswoman Cass Cliatt says that these policies follow the 1997 United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organizations (UNESCO) agreements, which apply to ancient artwork and archaeological objects. However, ethical guidelines for the acquisition and holding of artifacts by museums have been in place for decades, the result of an agreement UNESCO made...