A European court has upheld Italy’s right to seize a prized Greek statue from the J.
FILE - Reporter Sookee Chung takes a photo of a sculpture titled"Statue of a Victorious Youth, 300-100 B.C." at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, on July 27, 2015. A European court upheld Italys right to seize a prized Greek statue from the J. Paul Getty Museum in California, rejecting the museums appeal on Thursday and ruling Italy was right to try to reclaim an important part of its cultural heritage.
An Italian court in Pesaro had ordered it seized and returned in 2010, at the height of Italy’s campaign to recover antiquities looted from its territory and sold to museums and private collectors around the globe.Among other things, the Getty had argued that the statue is of Greek origin, was found in international waters and has never been part of Italy’s cultural heritage. It has cited a 1968 Court of Cassation ruling that found no evidence that the statue belonged to Italy.
The ECHR however, ruled in favor of Italy and strongly reaffirmed Italy's right to pursue the protection of its cultural heritage, especially from unlawful exportation. Though the artist is unknown, some scholars believe it was made by Lysippos, Alexander the Great’s personal sculptor. Italy has successfully won back thousands of artifacts from museums, collections and private owners around the world that it says were looted or stolen from the country illegally, and recently opened a museum to house them until they can be returned to the regions from where they were looted.
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