Some Thoughts on the Benin Bronzes

Wednesday, July 30, 2008
James Cuno in Who Owns Antiquity takes six objects from the holdings of the Art Institute of Chicago to demonstrate its character as an encyclopedic museum The third piece is a bronze plaque from Benin that was acquired in Cuno speculates that it probably left the kingdom of Benin following the punitive raid by the British in ... Read more

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