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11 comments to "5 Scandals that Rocked Art."
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bay word
April 24th, 2007 at
4:40 am
As they say - so there !!
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ted
April 24th, 2007 at
6:49 am
There’s been a lot of scandal with auction houses, including smuggling art and antiquities.
There’s a big illegal trade going on with vases from Italy. A lot of large museums didn’t ask where some of the art they were buying actually came from - “don’t ask, don’t tell”. The trade’s so huge that if you ever see an ancient piece of art with the words “provenance unknown” or “believed to be”, you can be reasonably sure it’s illegal.
The Getty Museum and the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art are just two recipients of illegally excavated and smuggled artwork.
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patrick
April 24th, 2007 at
9:25 am
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Andrea
April 24th, 2007 at
10:58 am
You have forgotten the biggest scandal in Italy: the theft of “Portrait of woman” by Gustav Klimt stolen in 1997 at the Ricci Oddi Gallery in Piacenza (Italy).
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Watch TV
April 24th, 2007 at
6:42 pm
“Wanton acts of destruction in the art world are fortunately rare”
The Sphinx of Giza (alleged Guardian to the Underworld) was destroyed by Napolean’s army who were apparently fiddling around with a cannon, and had apparently taken a few shots on the Sphinx - which caused the destruction of its nose. -
gordon
April 24th, 2007 at
9:16 pm
i think this art list is funny. what about the issues with all the art lost in iraq?
gordon
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Flavia
April 24th, 2007 at
9:29 pm
The destruction of the Pieta could have been included?
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Jessy
April 24th, 2007 at
9:34 pm
Also of note about the Cellini saltcellar, it is his only extant (existing work)…
In terms of damage to works, one need only think of the Parthenon’s Ionic Frieze enduring centuries of damage by Christians smashing at the pagan monument, Henry VIII burning all of the monasteries, the statue of David having its toes smashed off by a pissed off student at the Uffizi, the Taliban destroying the Bamayan buddhas in Pakistan, etc. Another famous example of “damage” is Peter the Great’s wife climbing a statue of Ramses II and carving her name in it to say, “The tzarina was here.”
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Fred
April 24th, 2007 at
9:51 pm
Wasn’t The Scream stolen??
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whatthehell
April 24th, 2007 at
10:15 pm
What about the “artform” known as “Dada”. Marcel Duchamp and his anti-art/art movement. Probably one of the biggest scandals in art history.
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Motorcycle Guy
April 29th, 2007 at
7:47 am
I guess you could say wanton acts of destruction are actually quite common.
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