What are some examples of artwork that was destroyed?

I won’t list them all, but various activists have thrown oil or soup on paintings in France and other major art museums. It has happened too many times to list just one.

Saddam Hussein’s statue after he was killed.

In Syria, during ISIS’ rule. The sculptures at Palmyra and other places.

The Amber Room is thought to have been destroyed in WWII but rumors persist that is may still exist.

@MakeItSo1701 No they haven’t. There isn’t a single case.

They’re thrown soup at glass protecting the art work.

@kruger_d – yes. a couple years I did a lot of reading on the Amber room. I think it’s more than rumors that it exists – from what I read all of the materials are stored somewhere in Germany. One theory was that they’re in a disused, abandoned railroad tunnel – still in freight cars – but the location isn’t known.

It’s a pretty good mystery.

I mean…

Okay?

Plenty of activists have destroyed artwork in various ways

@MakeItSo1701 Congratulations on finding one example that involved neither soup nor oil, wasn’t in France, and not held in a gallery or museum.

The Buddhist statues at Bamiyan.

The Pietà sculpture from the Vatican in 1972.

https://www.nytimes.com/1972/05/22/archives/pieta-damaged-in-hammer-attack-assailant-with-hammer-damages-the.html

War has destroyed countless pieces of Art and artifacts over the centuries.