ANTONIO CORRADINI

Antonio Corradini (1688-1752).

PÈRE-LACHAISE

ADOLF WAMPER

Adolf Wamper (1901-1977).

THE DESTROYED STATUES OF PARIS

During the Nazi occupation of France in World War II, the co-operating Vichy government ordered the removal and destruction of all metal monuments and statues for the purpose of remelting, unless considered to be of “historical or artistic interest” to the new regime. In other words, sculptures that symbolised democracy, liberal policies, progression, the avant-garde and generally anything that might have offended the Germans, was deemed “ugly” and radical and sent straight to a hellish grave of twisted metal and fallen statues.

Throughout France during the Second World War, 17,000 statues, both commemorative and decorative, disappeared.

Source: MessyNessyChic.

DUANE HANSON

Duane Hanson (1925-1996).

Two Pharaonic statues uncovered by archaeologists in Cairo

Archaeologists have found two Pharaonic statues dating back more than 3,000 years in a muddy pit in a Cairo suburb.

The statues, discovered on Thursday on wasteland between crumbling apartment blocks, are thought to represent pharaohs from the 19th dynasty, which ruled from 1314 to 1200 BCE.

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LOUVRE – GREEK AND ROMAN ROOMS