Law & Ethics of Art Restitution
The Liberation of St. Peter from Prison
St. Dorothy with the Christ Child, 1508, pen and ink. BM reg. no: 1949-4-11-98
Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society, 1932
Explosion of restitution claims against US museums and collectors
US law is relatively open to restitution claims.
"Italian rule - immediate transfer"
"Italian rule - immediate transfer"
Other aspects of US law favoring restitution
US museums sensitive to public opinion
Code of Ethics for Museums [2000]
Before Napoleon: the right to plunder
Ex libris created by Maximilian for Palatina books
Nazi Looting on Unprecedented Scale
London Declaration" of 5 January 1943
Washington Conference Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art, December 3, 1998
Vincent Van Gogh, View of the Asylum and Chapel of Saint-Remy (1889) oil on canvas
View of the Asylum and Chapel of Saint-Remy
View of the Asylum and Chapel of Saint-Remy
View of the Asylum and Chapel of Saint-Remy
View of the Asylum and Chapel of Saint-Remy
View of the Asylum and Chapel of Saint-Remy
View of the Asylum and Chapel of Saint-Remy
Vincent Van Gogh, View of the Asylum and Chapel of Saint-Remy
Gustave Klimt, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907) oil and gold on canvas
Declaration on the Importance & Value of Universal Museums
Human remains or sacred objects of indigenous peoples
"Claiming objects taken 200 years..."
Major-General Horatio Gordon Robley (1840–1930) Soldier, artist, collector
AAMD Report on the Acquisition and Stewardship of Sacred Objects (2006)
Illicit excavation of antiquities
Growth in Illicit Antiquities Market
ICOM RECOMMENDATIONS (Ethics of Acquisitions, 1970)
The University of Pennsylvania Museum - April 1, 1970
US Cultural Property Implementation Act (CPIA)
Paul Bator, Goals for a Licit Trade in Cultural Objects (1983)
2004 AAMD Acquisitions Guidelines
US v An Antique Platter of Gold
2008 AAM Standards Regarding Archaeological Material &Ancient Art
2008 AAM Standards Regarding Archaeological Material &Ancient Art
2008 AAM Standards Regarding Archaeological Material &Ancient Art
2008 AAM Standards Regarding Archaeological Material &Ancient Art
2008 AAM Standards Regarding Archaeological Material &Ancient Art