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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 7993063, member: 128351&quot;]You mean the Parthenon, not the Pantheon, I suppose <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. It is true that the Turks had stored ammunition in the Parthenon in 1687, but there was a war going on and the Venetians, knowing where the powder was, did not hesitate to aim at the temple / church / mosque. Unfortunately this kind of things happen during wars. The Allied in 1944 bombed and completely destroyed the historic monastery of Monte Cassino in Italy, and in 1945 the whole city of Dresden, an 18th c. gem. Some officers sometimes try to avoid such disasters. One day of 1944 in Sienna, Italy, gunners submitted their artillery preparation plan for approval by General Monsabert, he just said : &quot;If you shoot at anything older than the 18th c. you will be court martialed.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Before 1687 the Parthenon was mostly intact, its sculptures had been respected for centuries by the Christians and by the Muslims. None had been defaced by anybody, even those who were easily accessible. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Acropolis drawn in 1670:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1386658[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>drawing of part of the W. pediment in 1674:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1386659[/ATTACH] </p><p>Plan of Fanelli (1707) showing the two fatal successful Venetian cannon shots :</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1386660[/ATTACH] </p><p>Explosion of the Parthenon:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1386661[/ATTACH] </p><p>The Caryatid porch of the Erechtheion in 1751 : all drawings of the pre-Elgin period show the statues intact, except the N-E one which was missing long before. They had suffered no iconoclasm from anybody, and were not under threat.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1386665[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Lord Elgin having the sculptures removed from the still standing parts of the Parthenon (Watercolor by Edward Dodwell, 1801): </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1386663[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The Caryatid porch as left by Lord Elgin (Watercolor by Edward Dodwell): </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1386664[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Another view of the porch, drawing by Simone Pomardi, 1804:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1386667[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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