Sotheby’s Institute of Art | Art Repatriation in China

Art repatriation is just one example of the key art world issues you can learn about at Sotheby’s Institute. In this exclusive video, Dr Iain Robertson, head of art business at Sotheby’s Institute in London, looks at the cases of the so-called Elgin Marbles and the 1860 looting of Beijing’s Old Summer Palace, charting the journey of two bronze animal heads which, in 2009, made it back to their country of origin.

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