REPLACING ART
November 29 2006
Boston's Museum of Fine Arts has been lent a 9-foot marble statue of Eirene, the goddess of peace, in exchange for the return of 13 disputed antiquities to Rome.
This is part of a larger mission to retrieve antiquities and works of art that were allegedly sold illegally to various international museums.
Already New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art have returned pieces but a dispute has erupted with the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. The museum was asked to return more than 40 works but only agreed to send back 26.
