While facing renewed accusations of cultural theft, the institution announced that it had been the victim of actual theft—from someone on the inside. Rebecca Mead reports.
It was a good moment for a man of means to build such a collection. Many Italian nobles were seeing their fortunes dwindle, and could be persuaded to part with inherited objects for the right price. In Naples, Townley bought from the Principe di Laurenzano a Roman bust of a young woman with downcast eyes, identified as the nymph Clytie.
In 1801, the governing Turkish authority apparently informed an emissary of Elgin’s in Athens that fallen pieces of the temple could be excavated and removed. Once work began at the site, this permission was very liberally interpreted both by Elgin’s representatives, who started cutting sculptures off the building, and by the Turkish authorities, who appear to have been bribed to ignore such actions. According to William St.
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