The ‘Winged Victory of Samothrace’, regarded as one of the great surviving masterpieces of sculpture from the Hellenistic period, was unearthed by the French Consul to Turkey in 1883 and promptly shipped back to Paris.
It remains on display at the Louvre Museum. I was privileged to see it on a visit to the museum in 1990 but I have a couple of questions…
…where should it be?
and with the Louvre bursting at the seams with stolen artefacts,
…why all the fuss about the Elgin (Parthenon) Marbles?
Have Bag, Will Travel 