Even Another Getty Update

On several prior occasions, I have reported on the problems facing the Getty Trust.  For the latest developments, see Rachel Sanderson, Getty Museum’s disputed art works return to Italy, Reuters, Nov. 11, 2005, where it is reported that

Italy welcomed home Friday three disputed art works from Los Angeles’ J. Paul Getty Museum in the latest chapter of a saga that put the spotlight on the international trade in stolen art.

The return of the treasures was even more significant because it came just days before the resumption of a trial in Rome of one of the Getty’s former curators on charges she conspired with dealers trafficking in looted antiquities. * * *

The three works returned by the Getty are a large antique vase signed by Asteas, a painter from the ancient southern Italian city of Paestum, a bronze Etruscan candelabrum and an ancient Greek funerary stone.

Special thanks to David S. Luber for bringing this update to my attention.