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Celtic art and monsters coming to UK…

Don’t panic, they’re not really ‘Celtic’ !…

Silver Gundestrup cauldron from northern Denmark
© John Lee / The National Museum of Denmark

Source : From monsters to manga : golden age of art by the Celtic race that never was, by Maev Kennedy, 10 July 2015

Julia Farley, the London curator, said the museums hoped to explode the view that the Celts were a distinct race who kept moving west from eastern Europe until they ended up stranded to this day in Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

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Western collections of Assyrian art more valuable than ever…

thanks to ISIS !…

Source : British Museum could send loans worth £1bn to the Gulf
An article by Martin Bailey, published
on theartnewspaper.com (15 July 2015)

The Banquet Scene
Gypsum wall panel relief fragment, 645BC-635BC
© The Trustees of the British Museum

Islamic State destroyed 50 complete panels at Nimrud in northern Iraq in April, which has made the remaining reliefs in museums, including the Louvre [Paris] and Metropolitan Museum of Art [New York], even more important. Although the £100m valuation may seem high for the British Museum’s Banquet Scene, Sotheby’s sold the Guennol Lioness (3000–2800BC) for $57m in 2007. The limestone figure of a lioness, believed to have been discovered near Baghdad, measures just 8cm in height. […]

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