Comments on: 5 Scandals that Rocked Art.

By: Motorcycle Guy

Motorcycle Guy — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 12:47:39 +0000

I guess you could say wanton acts of destruction are actually quite common.

By: whatthehell

whatthehell — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:15:39 +0000

What about the “artform” known as “Dada”. Marcel Duchamp and his anti-art/art movement. Probably one of the biggest scandals in art history.

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:51:29 +0000

Wasn’t The Scream stolen??

By: Jessy

Jessy — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:34:09 +0000

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.”

By: Flavia

Flavia — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:29:28 +0000

The destruction of the Pieta could have been included?

By: gordon

gordon — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:16:11 +0000

i think this art list is funny. what about the issues with all the art lost in iraq?

gordon

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By: Watch TV

Watch TV — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:42:38 +0000

“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.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:58:58 +0000

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).
Ciao!

By: patrick

patrick — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:25:44 +0000

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4636668.stm

By: ted

ted — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:49:31 +0000

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.

By: bay word

bay word — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:40:23 +0000

As they say - so there !!