Aphrodite Statue’s Last Days at the Getty Before Return to Italy
The Getty museum's ancient statue of the Greek love goddess is headed back home to Italy after a protracted international battle involving tomb-raiding art smugglers.
Sebastiano Missineo, the minister of culture from Sicily, and Karol Wight, senior curator of antiquities at the Getty Museum, stand near The Cult Statue of a Goddess, thought by some to be Aphrodite, during a visit to the Getty Villa in Malibu on Dec. 6,
