MAGNIFICENT GREEK WORKS OF ART IN FOREIGN MUSEUMS.

 

 

 The Parthenon Marbles currently held at the British Museum are one of the most famous Greek works of art displayed at the museum outside the country and perhaps the most controversial.

But many other especially magnificent Greek works of art are displayed in varuious museums around the world reminding these priceless treasures which were not shadowed by the Greek Marbles.   

The Venus de Milo was discovered on the small island of Milos is one of the most excellent examples of ancient Greek sculpture celebrated by her lost arms which have never been discovered by this day. and is found in the British Museum and there is a debate if it is Aphrodite or Artemis.

 The stunning Greek red vase with figures depicted on it and is the collection of Sir William Hamilton who sold it at the British Museum in 1712. 

This discus thrower is a reproduction of the only lost original statue which is now in the Louvre in Paris.  

The winged Victory of Samothrace isa marvellous piece of Greek sculpture is part of the collection of antiquities at the Villa Borgheze in Rome.