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Getty Sends Looted Art Home

Italy wins decades-long fight over illegally purchased antiquities

By Jason Farago, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 2, 2007 4:49 AM CDT

(Newser) – The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles will return to Italy 40 works of art, including some of the finest in the museum's collection, following a decades-long legal battle. The museum has agreed to give up dozens of masterpieces that Italy claims were looted,... Read full story »

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