{"id":575,"date":"2005-11-11T09:44:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-11T09:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=575"},"modified":"2005-11-11T09:44:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-11T09:44:00","slug":"getty-returns-three-objects-to-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=575","title":{"rendered":"Getty Returns Three Objects to Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The J. Paul Getty Museum returned three ancient artifacts to the Italian government this week, writes Jason Felch in the Los Angeles Times, marking the end of a legal battle over allegedly looted art that could serve as a test case for future claims by Italy against the Getty and other American museums. In a statement, the Getty said it believed that it had &#8220;valid defenses&#8221; to oppose the Italian claim but had agreed to return the Asteas krater, a large vase, &#8220;in the interest of settling the litigation and demonstrating the Getty&#8217;s interest in a productive relationship with Italy.&#8221; A bronze candelabrum and an inscribed gravestone were returned based on evidence presented in informal negotiations with the Getty, U.S. officials said.<\/p>\n<p>All this said, I&#8217;ve gotten a little tired of following this so, this is probably the last post on this for awhile<\/p>\n<p>Full story at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-getty10nov10,1,3107777.story?ctrack=1&amp;cset=true\" target=\"_new\">LA Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The J. Paul Getty Museum returned three ancient artifacts to the Italian government this week, writes Jason Felch in the Los Angeles Times, marking the end of a legal battle over allegedly looted art that could serve as a test case for future claims by Italy against the Getty and other American museums. In a statement, the Getty said it believed that it had &#8220;valid defenses&#8221; to oppose the Italian claim but had agreed to return the Asteas krater, a large vase, &#8220;in the interest of settling the litigation and demonstrating the Getty&#8217;s interest in a productive relationship with Italy.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=575\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Getty Returns Three Objects to Italy<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}