The History of Loot and Stolen Art by Ivan Lindsay

Author:Ivan Lindsay [Lindsay, Ivan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: loot, stolen, art, antiquities, Hitler, paintings, sculpture, Elgin Marbles, confiscators, booty, Nazis, Crusades, dissolution, monasteries, colonisation, Cortes, Pizarro, Cromwell, Ashanti
ISBN: 9781906509569
Publisher: Andrews UK Ltd.
Published: 2014-06-01T23:00:00+00:00

The marbles initially resided in the Elgin salon of 1832 but are today housed in the Duveen Gallery completed in 1939. Whether looted or legal, a walk through the chilly splendour of the Duveen Gallery convinces most people they are in the presence of one of the highpoints of man’s cultural achievement.

Perhaps the last word should go to a neutral third party. Adolf Michaelis, the late nineteenth-century German classical scholar, criticised the brutal way Elgin cut the monument to pieces, suspected Elgin had abused his position and acknowledged the terms of the firman were ambiguous. However, noting the indifference of the Greeks and the active hostility of the Muslim Turks towards sculpture, he concluded, ‘Only blind passion could doubt that Lord Elgin’s was an act of preservation.’[12]

1 Chamberlin, Russell, Loot, the Heritage of Plunder, Thames and Hudson, 1983, p. 14.

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