[MSN] MAZUR/SCOOP: ITALY'S LIST OF ANCIENT TREASURES AT CLEVELAND

Thu Apr 26 05:39:25 CEST 2007

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00343.htm for a complete list of
images!

Mazur: Italy's List Of Ancient Treasures At Cleveland
Sunday, 22 April 2007, 8:37 pm
Article: Suzan Mazur 

It's Official! -- Italy's List Of Ancient Treasures At Cleveland

By Suzan Mazur

Medea in flight with her crested serpents 
Cleveland Museum representatives met in Rome on Friday with Italy's ministry
of culture to discuss a list of dozens -- yes dozens -- of pieces of Italy's
cultural patrimony now part of the museum's hoard. 
Topping the list is the fabulous ex-Hunt collection Medea calyx krater, 400
bc, first identified on these pages as looted Italian art [see.. Scoop:
Cleveland's Got Prized South Italian Medea Vase & Scoop: Italy Will Contest
Medea Vase At Cleveland Museum] - the vase former Boston Museum of Fine Arts
curator Cornelius Vermeule told me he'd "kill for" around the time of the
1990 Hunt-Sotheby's auction. [see. Scoop: Sotheby's Pre-Auction Euphronios
Transcript] 
Also on the list and previously cited here is the bronze statue of Apollo
Sauroktonos (Lizard Slayer) attributed to Praxiteles and sold to Cleveland
by Phoenix Ancient Art's Aboutaam brothers. [see. Scoop: Hicham Aboutaam:
"It Is Good To Be Scrutinized"] 

Other highly important pieces are a black-figure oil flask from Campania,
330-300 bc, originally listed in Bob Hecht's trial documents as one of the
94 pieces he trafficked, and a Campanian red-figure oil flask, 350-320 bc,
donated by ex-Hecht Atlantis Antiquities financier Jonathan Rosen. 
And there's the 6th century bc silver Etruscan bracelet, a gift from
"trafficante" Edoardo Almagia to Cleveland Museum in honor of Arielle P.
Kozloff, the museum's former curator of Greek and Roman art, who left her
post a few years ago to work for New York dealer Ed Merrin. [see. Scoop:
Merrin Gallery In Italy's Antiquities Dragnet?] Kozloff is now an
"independent scholar". 
The list of loot follows:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00343.htm for a complete list of
images

1. Medea Calyx Krater, ex-Hunt Collection, Lucania, South Italy, 400 BC 
http://www.clevelandart.org/explore/magnify.asp?woID=8549 

2. Paestan Black-Figure Lekythos (oil flask), Campania, South Italy, 330-300
BC 
http://www.clevelandart.org/explore/magnify.asp?woID=8643 

3. Campanian Red-Figure Acorn Lekythos, 350-320 BC, gift of Jonathan P.
Rosen, Bob Hecht's financier of Atlantis Antiquities 
http://www.clevelandart.org/explore/magnify.asp?woID=8649 

4. Bronze Statue, Apollo Sauroktopos (Lizard Slayer), 350 - 275 BC,
attributed to Praxiteles. Sold to museum by the Aboutaam brothers at Phoenix
Ancient Art. 
http://www.clevelandart.org/explore/magnify.asp?woID=58577 

5. Roman Bronze Dancing Bear Oil Ampula, 3rd C AD 
http://www.clevelandart.org/explore/magnify.asp?woID=8689 

6. Heron Aryballos, Terracotta -- 580 BC 
http://www.clevelandart.org/explore/magnify.asp?woID=8560 

7. Bronze Rider -- 400-375 BC 
http://www.clevelandart.org/explore/magnify.asp?woID=8698 

8. Marble Aphrodite Torso -- Taranto, Italy 2nd-1st C BC 
http://www.clevelandart.org/explore/magnify.asp?woID=8544 

9. Apulian Bell-Krater, South Italy 390-380 BC 
http://www.clevelandart.org/explore/magnify.asp?woID=8547 

10.. Silver Etruscan Bracelet 6th C BC -- Gift of Edoardo Almagia in honor
of Arielle P. Kozloff 
http://www.clevelandart.org/explore/magnify.asp?woID=6863 

11. Amber Sphinx, South Italy 500 BC 
http://www.clevelandart.org/explore/magnify.asp?woID=8704 

12. Amber Head of a Woman, Etruscan 7th C BC 
http://www.clevelandart.org/explore/magnify.asp?woID=9033 

13. "Pontic" Oinochoe, Black Figure Terracotta, Etruscan 520 BC 
http://www.clevelandart.org/explore/magnify.asp?woID=8641 

14. Bronze Statuette of Hercules with silver & copper inlays, Rome 30-20 BC 
http://www.clevelandart.org/explore/magnify.asp?woID=8590 

15. Bronze Statuette of Lar with copper inlays, Rome 1-25 AD 
http://www.clevelandart.org/explore/magnify.asp?woID=8592 

16. Bronze Statuette of a Barbarian, Rome 1-100 AD 
http://www.clevelandart.org/explore/magnify.asp?woID=8591 
>>NO IMAGE AVAILABLE<< 
17. Column Krater, Terracotta, 600-590 BC 
LINK 

18. Inscribed Processional Cross, blue & red enamel w/ gilded copper, Siena,
Tuscany 1350 AD 
http://www.clevelandart.org/explore/magnify.asp?woID=8234 
>>NO IMAGE AVAILABLE<< 
19. Bronze Statuette of a Warrior, Sardinia 900-700 BC 
LINK 

20. Bronze Statuette of a Warrior, Etruscan, 500 BC, Rimini, Italy 
http://www.clevelandart.org/explore/magnify.asp?woID=8683 

21. Bronze attachment -- Victory with Cornucopia -- from Roman chariot,
40-68 AD 
http://www.clevelandart.org/explore/magnify.asp?woID=8538 

22. Marble head of Emperor Balbinus, 3rd C AD, once attached to a Roman
sarcophagus 
http://www.clevelandart.org/explore/magnify.asp?woID=8527 

23. Woman at Banquet, Bronze Etruscan vessel ornament, 400-375 BC 
http://www.clevelandart.org/explore/magnify.asp?woID=8634 

24. Reclining Flutist, Bronze Etruscan vessel ornament, 400-375 BC 
http://www.clevelandart.org/explore/magnify.asp?woID=8629 

25. Bronze Lyre-Player & Figure with Ompholos, Etruscan, 400-375 BC 
http://www.clevelandart.org/explore/magnify.asp?woID=8631 

26. Silver Goblet, Vicarello, Italy, 1st C BC - 1st C AD 
http://www.clevelandart.org/explore/magnify.asp?woID=9022 

27. Bird Askos, Terracotta vessel for scented oil, Vulci, Italy, 8th C BC.
Says Cleveland: "The museum's Bird Askos, probably made near the ancient
Etruscan city of Vulci in Italy, presumably owes its excellent state of
preservation to being deposited in a sealed tomb." 
http://www.clevelandart.org/explore/magnify.asp?woID=8710 