U.S. authorities return antiquities worth $19 million to Italy, including 27 objects seized from the Met
, one of the looted artifacts recovered from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and returned to Italy in 2022. Photo: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.from U.S. authorities, who recovered around half of the objects from the holdings of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Collectively worth about $19 million, the relics were returned to the Italian authorities by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office“For us Italians,” said Vincenzo Molinese, head of the Carabinieri art squad, “the value of these artworks, which is the value of our historic and cultural identity, is incalculable.”a white marble bust of Roman emperor Septimius Severus, which was recovered in 2020, on the eve of it heading to auction at Christie’s New York; as well as the, a 200 B.C.E.
looted by tomb raiders from a villa in the ancient town of Herculaneum and illegally run into the U.S. Italy first asked for its return in 1997.
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