Menil Collection Is to Return Frescoes to Cyprus - NYTimes.com
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The Menil Collection in Houston will fulfill the terms of its founder’s deal to save looted Greek Orthodox art.

Houston's Menil Collection Announces Return of Byzantine Frescoes to Cyprus in 2012
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B HOUSTON, TX.- /B After more than two decades in Houston, the beloved Byzantine frescoes will go back to Cyprus in 2012. While this moment is bitte

Houston's Menil Collection to Return Frescoes to Cyprus - WSJ.com
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A loan ends for 700-year-old Byzantine-era works.

Houston's Menil is returning holy artworks to Cyprus - Houston Chronicle
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For more than two decades, Houston has been home to a large pair of restored 13th-century Byzantine frescoes that Menil Collection founder Dominique de Menil purchased from art thieves in 1984. In an unusual gesture of cultural stewardship, de Menil spent more than $522,000 to buy the frescoes - and another $815,000 to restore them - all while acknowledging they belonged to the Greek Orthodox Church of Cyprus. Katsaros said the church will work with the Cypriot Department of Antiquities to place the frescoes \"in a proper environment in the free part of Cyprus\" with the goal of eventually returning them to the original chapel \"in their holy sacred land on the day of its liberation.\" Without the frescoes, Helfenstein and the Menil's site plan committee will have to decide what role the Byzantine Fresco Chapel, which was designed by de Menil's son, Francois, will play in a campus already being re-imagined in a master site plan developed by David Chipperfield Architects in 2009. The first steps will be to see the interior without Francois de Menil's structure of black steel, wood and opaque glass that echoes the forms of the original chapel in Lysi and to consider the building's dialogue with the rest of the campus, Helfenstein said.