Loan for rare MU-Italy art project covers shipping, insurance costs
Nov 07, 2014
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In September, MU and the Italian government announced an agreement for a loan of 249 vessels of previously unstudied black-gloss pottery from the Capitoline Museums in Rome to be examined by MU students and scholars.
It was the launch of an extremely rare project, as Italy had done only temporary international art loans in the past.
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