Antiquities Acquired: The Spoliation of Greece

by: Bracken, C.P.

Price: 26,00 EURO

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 This is the extraordinary, often shocking, story of how Greece was despoiled of much of her treasures in the early nineteenth century -- The treasures that are now priceless exhibits in the great museums of the world. Lord Elgin acquired the famous marbles that bear his name, but he was not the only one to take part in a kind of free-for-all, not so far removed from modern vandalism: many amateur and semi-professional collectors were at work, taking what they could get for paltry sums, bribes or nothing at all, blissfully blind to the havoc they wrecked... Miss Bracken has lived for long periods in Greece, visiting sites of its classical civilisation. Her interest in the spoliators was first aroused by the names carved with laborious care on many of the monuments; one example is the column at Delphi inscribed by Lords Aberdeen and Bryon. This is a book that will fill in the often colourful background to Greek treasures in museums and Greece itself

Contents:
Introduction
Greece in 1800
The Acropolis of Athens
Athens and Attica
Eleusis
The Morea
Aegina
Bassae
Melos
Cry Havoc
Olympia and the French Expedition de Moree
Epilogue

Subjects:
Antiquities
Art thefts
Art thefts Greece
Ausgrabung
Geschichte
Greece
Greece Antiquities
Grèce Antiquités
Griechenland
Vandalism
Vandalism Greece
Vandalisme
Vandalisme Grèce
Vol d'objets d'art Grèce
vandalism

210 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Antiquities Acquired: The Spoliation of Greece

by: Bracken, C.P.

• ISBN-13: 9780715370001 / 978-0-7153-7000-1
• ISBN-03: 0715370006 / 0-7153-7000-6
• David & Charles, London, 1975

Price: 26,00 EURO

1 copy in stock