That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for November 02, 2021

“Finders keepers; losers…”

These were “purchased” from Bruce, Earl of Elgin. / Grecian rights to Greek art, thereby squelchin.’ / Many laws the Earl garbles; / so the Greeks lost their marbles. / (On the curator’s breath you can smell gin.) /// Torn from Parthenon— if you would see ‘em, / you must come to the British Museum. / Back in Athens they yearn / for the marbles’ return. / We can only hope Britain will free ‘em.

“We must determine the reason why the Greeks were so much bigger than us.”

The politicians liked having larger than life heroes, but only if they stayed silent.

The far statue was the poster prop for Kevin Bacon’s Footless . He was a hero, so “Let’s Hear It For The Boy.”

Less than a minute this time. I put it on yesterday’s thread earlier so I wouldn’t forget it. But anyway: A Greek who lacks hands and feet/ is a Greek who is incomplete./ There are numbers of these/ on the Parthenon frieze/ where they lie and bleach in the heat./// In Britain it’s easy to see ‘em/ where the tickets are sold per DM/ You may even get cool/ in the vestibule/ when London heats up in the p.m. /// The Greeks will maintain it was theft/ but Lord Elgin’s maneuver was deft/ for the chances are good/ that he well understood/ “get it out or there ’ll be nothing left “.

Three men and two statues get a place to sit. But is there a chair for the lady? Oh, no!

This one is titled, “Bad Day in Pompeii; the floor is lava!”

If you’ve lost your marbles – raise your hand.

We don’t need Sherlock Holmes to solve this. The price was SOO… HIGH, they couldn’t afford an arm and a leg.

“Reginald, you have to stop going into stores who’s policy is, “If you break it, you buy it.”

We have to remember not to take ownership of these statues for granite.

This is a marbleous painting!

No bid from me, they don’t go with my IKEA furniture.

You can’t say a word against Phidias/ (were I sculpting, I’d be quite invidious)/ and old Praxiteles/ must have earned handsome fees/ but the way they’ve been treated is hideous. /// As artists, among the elect/ – yet offensive to one special sect/ for no matter how sprightly/ the body’s unsightly/ so from Turks they “don’t get no respect”./// Other artworks have been destroyed/ when the wrong people they have annoyed/ safe in a museum/ we’ve been lucky to see some/ before they were sent to the “void”.///The best of humanity’s “doin’s”/ are frequently left in ruins/ and the anger ( nay, fury !)/ of Melina Mercouri/ would not have impressed the Bedouins.

Don’t ask the British museum how they ‘acquired’ their displays.

The buyers were just us/ And we got them without much fuss/ They’ve been on display /for many a day/ There’s no market after they break off the penis.

“…and nobody is leaving this room until the prankster with the chisel reveals himself!”

I have always felt that museums were the repositories for antiquities thieves and stolen art fencers.

The ones up on the wall are kind of creepy.

Couldn’t we have gotten some nude statues of women?

SIR REGINALD: The only way we could keep these two from ‘getting at each other’ was to break off their feet and move that guy’s head from the room. Greeks, am I right?

“We might have to give the horse head back to the Corleone family.”

“These things cost us an arm and a leg.”

The Trustees in the Temporary Elgin Room, 1819: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%27The_Trustees_in_the_Temporary_Elgin_Room,_1819.jpg 

has info and links that point to more info about this painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image at 

https://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/2021/11/masterpiece-2819.html 

I have added a comment there (already approved by Mr. Melcher) pointing to the artist info I used to point to here. First work by this artist used here.

“…And we can tape the banana to the wall over there.”

early orthopedic school used live models to cut up and study, then coat them in plaster and leave them at museum door.

These statues need to be returned to Greece. They were “given” to Lord Elgin by the Turks who had occupied Athens. The people of Greece are the rightful owner. This injustice needs to be corrected.

I almost sealed the deal to trade one for a painting by Joseph Dorn, but the people saw that they were overruled when the dog pissed on the statue.