B.C.E., the Trojans learned a fateful lesson: beware of Greeks bearing gifts, particularly when disguised as a massive wooden ...

The artwork, Aeneas and His Family Fleeing Burning Troy (1654) by Henry Gibbs, was seized from Samuel Hartveld’s home in Antwerp as an act of "racial persecution," according to the UK’s ...

The painting being returned is by the Canterbury artist is Aeneas and his family fleeing Burning Troy (1654), a work initially purchased by Tate from Galerie Jan de Maere, Brussels in 1994. More from ...

When Samuel Hartveld and his wife Claire Melboom fled Belgium in 1940, they left behind a collection of over 60 paintings that was later looted by the occupying Nazi government. Hartveld, a Jewish ...

MOMA HAS A NEW DIRECTOR. The Museum of Modern Art in New York has a new director Christophe Cherix, ARTnews reported on Friday. Cherix will succeed Glenn Lowry, the director of MoMA since 1995, and he ...

Samuel Hartveld and his wife were among those escaping Nazi persecution when they left Antwerp, leaving behind a number of belongings including the oil-on-canvas work "Aeneas and his Family Fleeing ...

Aeneas and his Family Fleeing Burning Troy was stolen from the home of Samuel Hartveld after he fled Antwerp, Belgium, with his wife in May 1940. The artwork by English painter Henry Gibbs was one of ...

The painting— Aeneas And His Family Fleeing Burning Troy (1654)—was one of 66 works seized by the Nazis from a gallery owned by Samuel Hartveld in Antwerp on 26 March 1942. According to the ...

Recently, Tate Gallery in London is set to return 'Aeneas and His Family Fleeing Burning Troy' to Samuel Hartveld’s descendants, highlighting the importance of art repatriation. There are many ...