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Italy and the Forum in particular are becoming a conservationist's nightmare. "It's no longer a matter of patching up this or that situation," said Minister Rodolfo Siviero. "It's a general collapse...
...complexities of international law in the art world were demonstrated again by the U.S. customs decision in the matter of the Raphael Portrait of a Young Girl, triumphantly exhibited by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts only 20 months ago. Siviero protested that it had been illegally exported from Italy; the museum protested that it had done nothing wrong, but it was generally conceded that the picture had been smuggled through customs in a briefcase by one of the Boston's own curators. Goaded by Siviero, U.S. customs seized the painting and mulled over the issue for eight months...
...coat. Meanwhile, the Italian government -piqued at the loss of a documented national treasure-began an investigation. It concluded that the Raphael came to the U.S., directly or indirectly, through an Italian art dealer, Ildebrando Bossi, who died a month ago. Italy's leading art investigator, Rodolfo Siviero, asserts that Bossi bought it "for a very small sum" in 1947 from the aristocratic Fieschi family in Genoa. At the time of his death, Bossi was under indictment for selling the national treasure and exporting it illegally...
Italy's official lost-art detective, Rodolfo Siviero, flew to Pasadena and verified the find. After showings in Washington and New York, the Pollaiuolos were sent back to the Uffizi. German police, tracing wartime cronies of the Meindls, recovered five more looted paintings (including a Bronzino Deposizione and a Lorenzo di Credi) from an old man in Munich who turned them over on a police promise to keep his name secret...