Visiting the new Getty Villa is a bittersweet ... figure of an audacious young athlete crowning himself in glory -- and the Lansdowne Herakles, a beefy Roman statue that was the late oil tycoon ...

Paul Getty Museum ... a bronze Greek statue of a young man, his weight shifted onto his right leg, his head crowned with an olive wreath—the prize bestowed on victorious athletes in ancient ...

the fate of the so-called Getty Bronze, a 4th century BC statue of a young athlete found by Italian fishermen in the 1960s. The statue is considered a signature piece in the Getty’s antiquities ...

Since 1978, the statue has been on display at the Getty Villa in Malibu ... Possibly a tribute to a victory by a Greek athlete at Olympia, the life-size piece is considered a rarity.

Italy has the right to confiscate a life-size bronze statue dating back to the second or third centuries B.C. from the J. Paul Getty Villa Museum ... in Italy as the “Athlete of Fano,” but ...

For years, legal wrangling has seen Italy and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles battle over the ownership of an ancient Greek statue. Now, one of Italy’s leading cultural officials is ...

The bronze, life-size statue known as the "Victorious Youth" is of a naked young man ... in Munich by the Getty Trust for $3.95 million. It is now on display at the Getty Villa Museum, in Malibu ...