Cleveland Museum of Art has acquired an antiquity from an unclear source for an undisclosed amount of money and things are starting to get a bit fishy...A bronze sculpture - Apollo the Lizard-slayer - possibly by Praxiteles, Ancient Greece's most treasured sculptor is under wraps in the museum's storage during it's renovations.The gaps in the sculpture's ownership history is questionable... Greece claims it was said to have been fished up in the 1990s between Greece and Italy and probably sold illegally until it was acquired by the museum in 2004.
This sculpture missed its chance to be displayed in the Louvre last year with a number of other Praxitele's works as well as be compared to other works of Apollo the lizard-slayer as the Louvre retracted its loan request for this exhibit.
Shouldn't antiquities belong to the countries from which they come from and not to the highest bidder?
antweaver
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