looted and they would publish and display the object and let everybody see it and so if anybody had a claim against it they could come forward and the Getty said, "Well, if
were looted , burned, stolen.
It's not looted antiquities.
Most sites are looted .
they're looted . Because Gurlitt said that none of these were looted and they were all acquired legitimately.
You'd be looted before your body hit the ground."
It had been looted just a few years earlier from a tomb outside of Rome, smuggled through a network of dealers, and presented to the Met.
trying to identify looted antiquities -- Jason Felch: Yes.
We'll look at how the Nazis looted art and the vast machinations that they used to carry out the looting .
of how to deal with looted art.
It's changed the way that museums looted art.
"Portrait of Wally" was not the only looted work of art in his collection.
There have been exception for Holocaust-looted art, which you can give it back.
Are the differences between art that was looted by individuals and there was in the more sort of state-sponsored looting , in terms of recovery, are there big differences
Over 1,500 stores were looted .
American museums had been buying recently looted antiquities with knowledge for decades.
India says this thing was recently looted and smuggled out of the country."
You know these objects were looted .
sub-saharan Africa rebel warlords have looted minerals and diamonds and smuggle them in order to fund
And today, Nazi-looted art is still out there.
Can you prove that this material is likely looted ?
Here are eight Middle Kingdom sites that have been looted .
And I'm going to talk about a story of Nazi-looted art that involved my family.
So the remit that was changed to find and recover a looted art.
And they were astounded by just how much art was looted throughout Europe.
There are also law firms that specialize in restitution of looted art.
There are lots and lots of databases of Nazi-looted art now.
And they feel really bad for the family that this was looted from.
It seems like there are some artists that tend to be looted more than others.
And so if we think that that object was looted we're going to put import restrictions on it and not allow it into the country."
She was accused by Italy of trafficking in looted art with some of the other dealers who were implicated.
There are these thousands and thousands of photographs of recently looted antiquities that have been seized by Italian authorities and Greek authorities.
to concentration camps, Jewish businesses were destroyed and looted , and synagogues were destroyed and looted .
Most sites, even King Tut's tomb was looted when Howard Carter found it.
It seems as if every week there's some sort of new Nazi-looted object that has resurfaced.
Through this story you'll be able to see all the nuances of looted art, theft, and recovery.
As a result, the Nazis looted art from every territory that they occupied.
Here, we have a picture of looted art being returned to Florence.
Conferences were held throughout the 1990s to talk about what to do with the outstanding looted art.
before you sell anything to make sure the works of art are not stolen or looted .
Unfortunately, there isn't a Google for looted art.
And there was a big outcry and there were rumors that it had been looted and people thought they knew the guys who had looted it, but the Met stood by its guns and said,
He was arrested or indicted under an alleged conspiracy to traffic near Eastern material recently looted Egyptian antiquities, smuggled through Bahrain into New York City where they
And I think no one has an interest right now in getting caught with looted antiquities.
Looting is a big problem, but it's one thing if a site's looted , and there are a couple hundred looting pits.
And ironically, this is what the Allies used and what we use today to help find looted art.
And so on the one hand, they're trying to return art that the Nazis looted .
And as I mentioned, museums throughout Europe have works in their collections that they know were looted by the Nazis.
So what do you do if you are a claimant and you want to search for looted art?
The other thing to do is, once you find out an object is stolen or looted , register it on a stolen art database.