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11 January 2013
Myth, Allegory, Emblem. The many lives of the Chimaera of Arezzo presented to the Getty Museum (January 11, 2013)

The Consul General, the director the Italian Cultural Institute and Mr. Federico Frediani  presented the Getty Museum with the new publication “Myth, Allegory, Emblem. The many lives of the Chimaera of Arezzo” curated by the Ministero per i Beni e le Attivita’ Culturali. The publication features the proceedings of the International colloquium held at the […]

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11 January 2013
The J. Paul Getty Museum announces the return of a head of hades from about 400–300 B.C. (January 10, 2013)

The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today plans to voluntarily return a terracotta head to Sicily representing the god Hades and dating to about 400–300 B.C. TheMuseum acquired the sculpture in 1985. The head will be transferred to the Museo Archeologico in Aidone after it goes on display in the Getty-organized traveling exhibition Sicily: Art […]

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