Never knew the art world was such shady business. The authors did a good job making a compelling story (I can see this book being incredibly boring in less capable hands) while touching on the nature of property and culture heritage. Are all antiquities excavated from Italy the property of the Italian government merely because of some law against the sale of antiquities passed under the fascist dictator Mussolini, or do they have some as-yet undefined right to own their history? Is humanity, or are the Italian people, lessened because a statue is owned by the Getty instead of borrowed from the government? I have no idea, stories like this make me wish I paid more attention in property class while in school.