The Netherlands returns toIndonesia 288 objects from public collections that were brought to Europe during colonial times. "Unfairly," the Dutch government specifies: these are artifacts and works of art deemed to be of cultural interest to Indonesia...
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Returning to Greece is an important 5th-century B.C. Attic vase that was given to Alcide De Gasperi during an official visit to Athens between Jan. 9 and 10, 1953. De Gasperi, then prime minister, obtained the vase as a gift to his Greek counterpart,...
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The Netherlands in recent days returned toEgypt three archaeological artifacts that had been illegally exported from the African country. Handing over the three objects to the Egyptian ambassador to the Netherlands, Hatem Elsayed Mohamed Kamaleldin, ...
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A painting executed by Lucas Cranach the Elder along with his workshop, which was surrendered under pressure to the Nazis by a Jewish collector from Hamburg, will be sold at auction by the museum that currently owns it, the Allentown Art Museum in Al...
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