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    Mary WBy Mary WJanuary 19, 2024No Comments2 Mins Read
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    Paris’s Lumière sur le Patrimoine affiliation has filed a lawsuit in opposition to three US museums, together with the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, for concealing the theft of a stained-glass window from Rouen Cathedral in December 2023. western france Report.

    In line with written testimony, archaeologist and artwork historian Jean Lafond (who died in 1975) inventoried a collection of stained glass home windows at Rouen Cathedral in 1911, which have been later found in 1931 to have been Stop to exist. 5 of the six home windows have been stated to have been bought on the Paris artwork market earlier than anybody knew they have been lacking.

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    The window panel depicts the “Seven Sleepers of Ephesus,” a well-known legend by which Christian troopers fell asleep in a cave close to Ephesus and awakened almost 200 years later, p. Six home windows come from a chapel within the nave.

    The works have been reportedly bought by American collectors earlier than coming into institutional collections on the Glencairn Museum in Bryn Athenian, Pennsylvania, the Worcester Museum in Massachusetts, and the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork in New York.

    Society president Philip Marchicot is working to return the artworks to the state. In September 2023, Mahicot tried to carry Sotheby’s chargeable for allegedly promoting two of Notre Dame’s stained glass home windows in 1862, however the Paris prosecutor’s workplace didn’t acknowledge the enchantment.

    The Rouen prosecutor’s workplace has two months to decide on the stained glass home windows of Rouen Cathedral.

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