Don't Blink
When you see this do you only look at what is missing? Peter Higgs says not to!
I chat to curator Peter Higgs and learn how ancient Greek buildings and sculptures were assembled - and how they were destroyed.
It is hard to see the glass as half full particularly when you are only left with a tiny fragment of it. Perhaps we should learn to revel in what we have rather than mourn the loss of ancient treasures.
The small fraction of statues we do have tell us so much about the past.
Statues were painted and some even wore wigs
they boasted about their prowess and fitness regimes… a bit like instagram today
Sometimes the people who deliberately smashed them up did more to conserve them than they realised.
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