“The marbles should be returned now that Greece is prepared to care for them. If they hadn’t been taken by the British; most of them would have been either reduced to rubble, or sold off to private collectors by now.”
Who knows what Hitler would have done with them when he occupied Greece. We saw what the National Socialists did with so much of Europe’s other artistic treasures.
Who knows what Hitler would have done with them when he occupied Greece.
NO better than the Brits. Elgin thought nothing of breaking apart the treasures in order to cart them away.
IN “Childe Harold,” his fellow countryman Byron wrote:
The last, the worst, dull spoiler, who was he? Blush, Caledonia! such thy son could be! ... Cold as the crags upon his native coast, His mind as barren and his heart as hard, Is he whose head conceiv’d, whose hand prepar’d Aught to displace Athena’s poor remains ... Dull is the eye that will not weep to see Thy walls defac’d, thy mouldering shrines removed, By British hands ...”
I fear what the Muslims will do to European art when they come into power due to population growth vs abortion. Hide it now!