[There are art realms · arts] 21 pieces are collected by the famous American museums to go home

According to the New York Times, the Metropolitan Museum of New York and the Los Angeles Getty Art Center will return 21 Italian cultural relics to Italy.

Metropolitan Museum of New York.

Over the past few months, prosecutors in New York have been investigating these cultural relics. According to the survey prosecutor, the 8 of them were bought in the museum through the Metropolitan Museum through the art dealer Jenfrando Bacha. Bechina is a art dealer with a gallery in Switzerland, and he has always been the suspicion of the Italian cultural relic reconnaissance case.

Metropolitan Museum of New York.

These works are very valuable. Among them, the huge Athena marble worth 3 million can be traced back to 200 BC. The Metropolitan Museum was purchased from Basel Gallery in Bechina in 1979.

One of the cultural relics of illegal stolen, a marble statue of an ancient Greek youth.

The Los Angeles Getty Art Center acquired a statue of a goddess Taowa, a goddess of 400 BC for $ 18 million, which was acquired in 2003.

On August 12, the Los Angeles Getty Art Center stated that they would return the famous illegal exported ancient Greek statue group "Offius" to Italy.

Los Angeles Getty Art Center.

"Orfez" is a group of live -sized ancient Greek clay sculptures, which were discovered in Plia. The cultural relics can be traced back to the fourth century BC, when Grand Greek culture reached its peak in southern Italy.

But since 2006, Italy has been looking for it. New York Manhattan prosecutor Matthew Pogdonos recently proved that the cultural relics were indeed illegally exported from Italy.

One of the cultural relics that are illegally stolen, a tea cup dates back to 470 BC.

The efforts of the prosecutor also prompted the other 142 cultural relics to return to Italy, most of which were collections from the financialist Michael Stanhart, the financialist of New York.

"The Orpis statue group has been confiscated from the Getty Museum in Los Angeles," Pogdonos said. "Prosecutor investigated individuals, not museums. Other art dealers aimed at investigators including the infamous Jia Komo Metizer and another Italian antique company Pas Quale Camera. "

One of the cultural relics that are illegal.

In addition to the plunder of Italian cultural relics, the other six ancient Egyptian cultural relics will be returned to Egypt.

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