The long journey of the return of the antique bronze

April 14, 2001, the Canada National Gallery of Art will be a collection of the Longmen Grottoes in the Tang Dynasty, a Chinese Rohan stone returned to China. May 23, from the United States recovered a protection dancer sculpture straight tomb of the king at the stone painted warrior like. June 13, 2002, a total of 14 tons of rare fossils back to the U.S. cable. The past 20 years, a number of countries under international law, to successfully claim back part of the loss of bronze. The emergence of human patterns on the bronze sculpture is of essential significance. These bronzes, including: Zaire to Belgium in 1977, to reclaim thousands of pieces of bronze; 1978, Papua New Guinea to Australia and New Zealand cable back to a number of valuable ethnographic bronze art; 1980, Iraq to France to reclaim the Babylonian Code and the Code of Hammurabi "part; January 26, 2002, Egypt German cable back to a 3000 years ago, ancient Egypt and France Lao Jin coffin coffin box.
On May 19 the same year, successfully He Lansuo back stolen 15 years ago, the 18th dynasty, the famous pharaoh of ancient Egypt, Amen III of the Avatar. May 27, 2002, finally agreed to the return of the angel statues have been very tough attitude of the British Museum and Greece on the return of the world-famous, with 2500 the history of ancient Greece, the Parthenon Marbles talks. October 3, 2002, the British Museum announced that its collection of four master paintings ransacked the World War II, the Nazi persecution of the Jews to the museum is considering the paintings returned to the owner's descendants, if true, this will is an important precedent for the major UK institutions back to the wartime plunder art. The appearance of this bronze sculpture implied an important transition from the art of god to human.
However, to reclaim the bronze figurines, after all, only a very small number. As bronze occupy the country, mostly developed countries, while they do not recognize the possession of his country bronze illegal, the other hand, argued that the bronze is the cultural heritage of the whole of human history, collection of bronze should not be limited to national boundaries. The decorations on the bronze sculpture of Shang and Zhou head from mystery to reality. Also claimed bronze protection technology and equipment is advanced, and better able to save these bronzes, if the bronze is returned to the countries of origin, due to backward technology and management, will enable the bronzes suffered further damage. These are artificially set to bronze the return of many obstacles, coupled with historical and political reasons for the long journey of the return of the antique bronze.
The scope and significance of the two, the recovery of bronze. From monotony to variety, the bronze sculpture has experienced a lot.  The international community, "returned the repayment of the historic national bronze, and more and more attention has been paid. UNESCO, has developed the "Convention concerning the Prohibition and prevent the illegal import and export of cultural property and illicit transfer of ownership" (1970), "International Association for the Unification of Private Law on the theft or illegal export bronze Transfer of Ownership Convention "(1995), UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported bronze" (1995) a series of international conventions. Formulation of these laws, and finally the sculpture in bronze work of a legal basis to recover.