Benin sculpture is more naturalistic than most African totems, as evidenced in 30 of the original bronze plaques lent by the British Museum and currently on view at the University of Pennsylvania ...

Edo artist, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria, Plaque, Mid-16th to 17th century, Copper alloy. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art will display nine works from the royal court of Benin in a ...

The National Gallery of Art (NGA), the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art (NMAA) and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum held a joint ceremony today (11 October ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — In a ceremony Tuesday morning, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art formally transferred ownership of 29 Benin bronzes to Nigeria. The bronzes are a small part ...

Leopard sculpture from Benin (1550-1680) Metropolitan Museum of Art When British forces raided the African kingdom of Benin in the late 19th century, they took with them thousands of sculptures ...

The Netherlands has officially returned 119 ancient sculptures stolen over 120 years ago from the former Kingdom of Benin in ...

In addition to the National Museum of African Art’s collection, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History has a collection of 20 Benin bronzes. Provenance research for that collection has ...

They believed that African art is world art, fully as much as Chinese Ming vases or European medieval sculpture; that it deserves to be seen, studied, appreciated, and protected on equal terms ...

The Benin Bronzes were stolen in 1897 when British forces sacked the Benin kingdom, which is now in modern-day Nigeria. The RISD Museum's piece, believed to date to the 1700s, was a gift from Lucy ...

On Nov. 28, 2017, French President Emmanuel Macron made strides in the African art restitution movement. Macron spoke at the University of Ouagadougou in West Africa and directly addressed the history ...

Ewuare II is a descendant of the sovereign who reigned over the kingdom when it was ransacked by British colonial soldiers in 1897. Thousands of ‘Benin Bronzes‘ – 16th- to 18th-century metal plaques ...