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<p>[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 3187491, member: 85693"]Interesting topic. I like Gavin's take on the purpose of art, ecclesiastical devotion vs. museum (a different type of devotion, perhaps, but not the same). This ties into recent threads on museums vs. collectors as repositories of art (specifically coins). Is a coin as artifact better served in the hands of a single collector or in a drawer in the basement of a museum? </p><p><br /></p><p>As for restoration of antiquities, there is something I often just don't like when I encounter it - even beyond the absurd example in the OP. I recently made my first trip to Rome and found I much preferred the Arch of Septimius Severus with all its discoloration and damage to the Arch of Titus, which looked over-restored and somewhat sterile to me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 3187491, member: 85693"]Interesting topic. I like Gavin's take on the purpose of art, ecclesiastical devotion vs. museum (a different type of devotion, perhaps, but not the same). This ties into recent threads on museums vs. collectors as repositories of art (specifically coins). Is a coin as artifact better served in the hands of a single collector or in a drawer in the basement of a museum? As for restoration of antiquities, there is something I often just don't like when I encounter it - even beyond the absurd example in the OP. I recently made my first trip to Rome and found I much preferred the Arch of Septimius Severus with all its discoloration and damage to the Arch of Titus, which looked over-restored and somewhat sterile to me.[/QUOTE]
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