Paolo Giorgio Ferri with the Euphronios krater, which was returned to Italy by New York’s Metropolitan MuseumIn 2005 an Italian court announced an indictment that stunned the antiquities departments of museums and galleries around the world. It unveiled charges against Marion True, the Harvardeducated curator of the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, who alongside the American art dealer Robert Hecht was accused of belonging to a trafficking ring that was looting Italy of its ancient artefacts. True had previously called for tighter acquisition policies at American museums and helped to return several items of dubious provenance from the Getty’s collection to Europe. However, Paolo Giorgio Ferri built a case against her alleging that she had purchased antiquities from dealers in full knowledge that they had been plundered by tomb raiders working on illegally excavated sites. His pursuit of True was based

Source: The Times August 19, 2020 22:52 UTC