[Republicanprofessor]

Woofie found this (and two other great articles) and suggested I post them, so here goes.

[Republicanprofessor]

Art Ping.

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[battlegearboat]

And to think my sainted grandmother dated that guy way back when in Bartlesville.

[konaice]

Dug from the ground does not mean looted in my book. That is a position held by history snobs without the money or the facilities to adequately care for the antiquities, who want it handed to them for nothing.

Anyone that thinks antiquities are better off in the hands of government has a very short memory.

An artifact buried and forgotten is lost to history, but placed in a Museum it becomes available to the ages. The guy should get a medal for his selfless act of preservation.

The idea that artifacts should become the property of government and remain in the country where they were discovered is bogus. These things should visit the four corners of the earth to educate people of different cultures, the overwhelmingly vast majority of which will never make it to Rome.

Private collections have a way of showing up in public displays over time. A person who pays a million bucks for a vase will protect it far better than a government that confiscates it under some antiquities act.

Even our own Smithsonian has warehouse after warehouse of history packed away never to be seen by the public, and only occasionally studied.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks for the ping (wipes eye), a good topic for GGG. I'd seen something about this, and the remarkable thing of course is, chronology, IOW, at what time the Getty did this stuff. Because every museum has unprovenanced stuff (including some very well-known pieces) in their collections.

[MinuteGal]

How the heck can you NOT purchase any antiquities from a guy named "Medici"?

Leni

[woofie]

another art bump

[SunkenCiv]

Documents: Getty had clues it was obtaining possibly looted art
AP | Sunday September 25, 2005
Posted on 09/25/2005 3:57:18 PM EDT by BenLurkin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1491102/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Just adding this to the GGG catalog, not sending a general distribution.

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