Le pillage archéologique et le trafic illicite des biens culturels
Le pillage d’œuvres artistiques en temps de guerre et le partage du butin est depuis longtemps le sujet de nombreuses représentations artistiques. Plus discret, celui de tombes est également bien documenté. L’époque contemporaine voit apparaître le vol de tableaux, parfois célèbres, puis le développement d’un pillage archéologique massif. La lutte contre ce pillage et le trafic illicite des biens culturels s’organise depuis plusieurs années, et se renforce, afin de protéger le patrimoine.
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number-of-objects: 1; Le papyrus Léopold II est la partie supérieure d'un document, dont la partie inférieure (= le Papyrus Amherst VII), actuellement conservée à la Pierpont Morgan Library de New York, était déjà connue depuis 1874. En 1935, Jean Cap…
In 1535, Emperor Charles V defeated the Turks at Tunis. One of his officers, Count Maximilian of Buren, seized this basin as booty. As the inscription on the object shows, he then gave it to the town of Grave on 26 December 1536. Earlier the Turks had the…
Book of Persian script with papier mache covers decorated with flowers. Begins with the dates of the deaths of religious leaders. The book starts by praising God, then the prophets, the prophet's family, then the disciples. Appears to be a biography o…
As of Friday, representatives of the regions are debating a bill in the Bundesrat supposed to facilitate the restitution of stolen artworks under the III Reich. Also on the menu of this magazine, the Berlinale. The ranking of the 64th Berlin film Festival…
À la fin des années 1950, une nécropole fut découverte à Sakkizabad, à quelque 60 km au sud de Qavzin dans le nord de l’Iran. Elle contenait de la céramique d’un genre jusqu’alors quasi inconnu. Seuls deux petits vases de ce genre avaient été exhumés aupa…
The three icons of this year’s Christmas issue together with another 169 ecclesiastical treasures which had been looted from churches in the North were repatriated in November 2013 from Munich, Germany, after many years of legal battles. The 64c stamp dep…
Both icons were among many items that were looted after the Turkish invasion of 1974 and only after a great deal of effort by the Republic of Cyprus and the Church were they repatriated from Germany in November 2008. The 51c stamp depicts the Guiding Virg…
À la fin des années 1950, une nécropole fut découverte à Sakkizabad, à quelque 60 km au sud de Qavzin dans le nord de l’Iran. Elle contenait de la céramique d’un genre jusqu’alors quasi inconnu. Seuls deux petits vases de ce genre avaient été exhumés aupa…
5 - cars parked near the tombs; a group of technicians and archeologists perlustrate the area; 13 - the tombstones with a face covered with a handkerchief and a mask answer the questions of the chronicler; 7 - the chronicler interviews two tombstones in t…
"The painting, acquired at the end of the century, has gone a sinuous way in terms of attributions and exciting by its existence, its disappearance following the theft from Brukenthal in 1968 and its spectacular reappearance after 30 years (1998) alo…
Madonna is one of Edvard Munch’s most important and well-known paintings, and was a centrepiece of his Frieze of Life series. Munch made several alternative versions of the painting, whose original title was Kvinne som elsker (Woman Making Love) and whose…
\ ‘Strappo\’ portrays the tenacity of some and the greed of others to achieve the treasures that kept the churches, which nobody valued before and are now the heritage of humanity according to Unesco. The new novel by Martí Gironell, of intrigues, decepti…
The arrest, which was learnt Thursday, of a neighbour of Arbeca guarding an arsenal of the Civil War and the Second World War has turned out to be only the tip of the iceberg of a powerful police operation. There are ten detainees Not only to store weapon…
In Catalonia there are more than two thousand pieces of art stolen are looking, such as paintings, sculptures and heritage remains have been taken from churches. Of these, according to the Mossos, it can only recover a small part. The rest circulate in th…
The black market for stolen artworks is one of the illegal businesses that moves more money globally. Only overcome drug trafficking and arms sales. In Catalonia, seek more than two thousand pieces of art.
The Scream is the most renowned and reproduced of all of Edvard Munch’s pictures. With its expressive colours, sinuous lines, and arresting totality, The Scream has proven to have universal appeal.