The return may be even more complicated than during the Fascist era

It is alleged that they were stolen from the collection of Cino Vitta, head of the Jewish community in Florence during the war

Museum directors summoned before the House of Representatives

A survey touching all the bases: losses, recoveries, legal debates, cultural restitution

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts and its former director, Alan Shestack are castigated in the press

A Foujita, a Picasso and a Gleizes revert to the descendants of the owners–but over 1000 works remain homeless

Russian parliament voted last month to override President Yeltsin’s veto, putting him in a precarious political position

“A very happy occasion” as painting looted by American soldiers returns home

Watercolours and drawings seized by the Red Army in a Berlin bunker in 1945 have been on show in the Hermitage earlier this year for the first time

Grant shares with The Art Newspaper his conversation with Julian Spalding of the Kelingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow

But negotiations continue between Chancellor Kohl and President Yeltsin

A radical change of policy as new director of antiquities takes over

Artifact had been missing from Bologna since 1940

This is in marked contrast to Russia’s tough line against any restitution of works of art taken from Nazi Germany

As recalled by Dick Kingzett of Agnew’s

Newly declassified records track the deposit of Nazi assets in Swiss banks—they include references to works of art

Surprisingly resigned attitude to restitution claims by a leading German museum

900 works of art looted from Vienna’s Jewish community and stored in a monastery since 1955 to be sold on its behalf - It may be a PR nightmare for the auctioneers

Would Italian law allow this picture to revert to the original owner?

Leading museum directors pessimistic

Two museums in search of their history end up at the door of the Pushkin Museum

Dube reacts angrily to Russian delays over restitution and responds to the opposition of Irina Antonova, veteran director of the Pushkin Museum

In a radical change of policy, the Getty now favours archaeological conservation, research and education over collection building

A commercial company has logged 34,000 looted objects so far

Brother and sister of the US soldier who stole the Quedlinburg treasure to face possible imprisonment

We publish here for the first time in English a sample of the huge quantity of works of art removed from Italy during the war. One brave man, Rodolfo Siviero, devoted years to tracking them down, but many are still missing. Can you help?

After many set backs a new building is finally in the works, as well as plans for a modern solution to the dispersal of Egypt's treasures

More roadblocks further slow the process

Russia’s Deputy Culture Minister speaks about the need to establish a new cultural identity in the new Russia