Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

Two Ancient Statues Stolen in the 1980s From Italian Museums are Now Home

November 20, 2010 by All Art News  
Filed under Art Crime & Legal

ROME (AP),- Two ancient statues stolen in the 1980s from Italian museums are now back home, thanks in part to a police art squad expert who spotted one of them in a New York gallery while window-shopping on vacation in the United States. The bronze statue of the Greek god Zeus and a marble female torso, both dating from the 1st century, had ended up in the hands of a dealer and a collector in New York, officials told a [...]