Edoardo Almagi News Today

Edoardo Almagià, who graduated from Princeton University in 1973, has been connected to a range of antiquities currently in the museum's collection

With new rules and new roles, institutions are hoping to avoid the cost and reputational harm of repatriation.

The objects were variously connected to Italian smugglers, the disgraced dealer Robin Symes, and the collector Shelby White. 

More than half the items were seized from a storage facility belonging to art dealer Robin Symes.

Five items linked to Edoardo Almagià ’73, who is currently being investigated for illegally smuggling art, remain in the Princeton University Art Museum after eleven artifacts worth $200,000 were seized following a search warrant filed by the Manhattan District Attorney’s O...

A search warrant filed by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office says that the art seized from the Museum was stolen. Six of the 11 artifacts were loaned from Edoardo Almagià ’73, who is currently being investigated for smuggling art.&nbsp&#x3B;

Italy has welcomed home 60 looted artifacts, receiving them from U.S. authorities, who recovered nearly half of the objects from the Met.

The 21 pieces of artwork from the Met were among 58 pieces, valued at $19 million, that were repatriated at the Manhattan District Attorney’s office.

The US has returned 200 stolen antiquities smuggled out of Italy, many of them linked to a Rome-based dealer, in a major repatriation valued at $10 million.

The Manhattan District Attorney has returned 200 objects linked to suspected antiquities traffickers to Italy.