Nov. 7 (UPI) --A highly anticipated database of the Benin Bronzes, a massive trove of art and cultural artifacts looted from the Kingdom of Benin by the British empire in 1897, launched Friday.

The story is well told in Barnaby Phillips’s Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes, published last year. A cockerel (18th century) (© The Trustees of the British Museum / Art Resource ...

In 2026, Nigeria plans to open the Edo Museum of West African Art in Benin City. The museum will house a majority of the ...

The art will be, in almost every sense ... to be “Nigeria” that makes the choice to sell or to display the Benin bronzes. It’s going to be one person and one family, who prevailed in ...

The Benin Bronzes is a catch-all term for the 10,000 items of art stolen from the Oba’s ancestor, including this 1550 horn player held by the Met. But campaign groups say the Oba’s family ...

Sold to private collectors and museums in the Global North, the artifacts, known as the Benin Bronzes, included ceremonial ... €1.2 million from a fine-art foundation in Berlin called Ernst ...

The Horniman Museum and Gardens in London plans to hand over 72 objects — which notably include a share of sculptures known as Benin bronzes — that were looted from Benin City in southern ...

The Headlines MAJOR BENIN BRONZE RETURN. The Netherlands is returning ... following the recommendation of a committee dedicated to the issue. ART FORGERY WORKSHOP UNCOVERED IN ROME.

the Museum of West African Art in Edo State, there is a vital need for the narrative of the restitution of the Benin bronzes to be told from the perspective of Africans, based on the realities on ...

Ezeluomba, curator of African art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and an expert on the bronzes who grew up in the Kingdom of Benin. Lehman is a great-grandson of Emanuel Lehman, one of three ...

The Benin Bronzes are indispensable to Nigeria ... s Father on His Deathbed” by Max Slevogt—to the heirs of Berlin art dealer Bruno Cassirer. They reached a deal to repurchase the paintings.

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