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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Heliodromus, post: 7883482, member: 120820&quot;]But in at least one case, the &quot;Victory of Calvatone&quot;, appendages (wings) that may never have existed were supplied.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://wsimag.com/art/61013-the-calvatone-victory" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://wsimag.com/art/61013-the-calvatone-victory" rel="nofollow">https://wsimag.com/art/61013-the-calvatone-victory</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This statue was found without wings, and without a left arm and palm frond, but having been identified as Victory was then &quot;restored&quot; with these missing attributes to look like Victory. Apparently there&#039;s reasonable doubt that the figure is in fact Victory at all. At best, even if she is, such &quot;restoration&quot; is at best modern guesswork.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s an interesting backstory to this piece - having originally been bought, restored, and displayed in Berlin, then targeted by the Soviets and taken as spoils of war during WWII. It was then stored in the basement of the Hermitage in Russia, in the wrong storage room due to having been misidentified as French, and only recently rediscovered, examined and put on display. They decided to leave the dubious wings, due to the statue having become famous in that form.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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