[PDF.39pf] Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum

Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum

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#203268 in eBooks 2011-05-24 2011-05-02File Name: B004X7TLOC1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Informative, entertaining, and exhaustively researchedBy Ava LynnThe stories of illegally excavated art investigated in this book span decades of smuggling, legal battles, and near constant prevarication on the part of museums. It's a fascinating look at corruption and hypocrisies in museums, all the more interesting and surprising (to me, at least) because I wasn't familiar with these pieces of art or the Getty's legal woes before picking up thiFrom Publishers WeeklyStarred . In an authoritative account, two reporters who led a Los Angeles Times investigation, reveal the details of the Getty Museum's illicit purchases, from smugglers and fences, of looted Greek and Roman antiquities. In 2005, the Italians indicted former Getty curator MarIn recent years, several of Americarsquo;s leading art museums have voluntarily given up their finest pieces of classical art to the governments of Italy and Greece. The monetary value is estimated at over half a billion dollars. Why would they be moved to such unheard-of generosity?nbsp;The answer lies at the Getty, one of the worldrsquo;s richest and most troubled museums, and scandalous revelations that it had been buying looted antiquities for decades. Drawing on a trove of confidential muse...

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