Getty vs. Italy: the case of the Atleta di Fano

By Lynda Albertson, CEO, ARCA, June 9, 2018. Text copied from the ARCA homepage. For the third time, and after years and years of battles, which started in the courtrooms of Pesaro before passing slowly through Italy’s Corte Suprema di Cassazione (Supreme Court of Cassation), only to be sent back down to the lower courts again, we…

ITALY: Trafficking cultural heritage, documentary at RAI

(in Italian), dal sito di ufficiostampa.rai.it The videos are also online available following this link: Ladri di Belezza “LADRI DI BELLEZZA” Mercoledì 6 Giugno prima serata RAI1 ore 21.30 È il quarto mercato illecito del mondo: il traffico d’oggetti d’arte frutto di scavi clandestini e veri e propri furti. “Petrolio” ricostruisce per la prima volta…

London, UK: Sotheby’s sells Roman marble figure from Symes-Michaelides

London. Sotheby’s put on sale in their 3/7/2018 antiquities auction a Roman Marble Figure of an Athlete, circa 1st/2nd Century A.D. (lot 23). It is estimated at £30.000-50,000. According to Sotheby’s, the ‘provenance’ is: John Hewett (1919-1994), London, perhaps acquired from Robin Symes; James Freeman, Kyoto, probably acquired from the above in the early 1970s; acquired from…