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Is that part of the original sculpture? It looks like a modern pedestal constructed for it to me.

• noncoml 9y ago
  You are right, but that was just an example I found on the web. Here is another one: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Sculpture_no4_in_the_Vatican_museum.JPG https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Sculptur... A few more: https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2693/4094114491_b9ae422af4_b.jpg https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2693/4094114491_b9ae422af4_b.j... https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4293/35910672716_90f1f62105_k.jpg https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4293/35910672716_90f1f62105_k....
  • goldenkey 9y ago
    Art is restored all the time. The places these labels were put are not where the valuable details rest. I grew up around antique collectors all my life. You are overreacting.
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    • dmix 9y ago
      Indeed, plenty of famous art pieces have been 'fixed' and if you really wanted to revert a statue back to it's original form removing the number plate would be an easy job and do wouldn't take away from the real artistic parts of it. As they were placed on the flat base of the pedestal, not touching the primary artwork which is the statue itself. Sure they could find far better solutions, and very likely would today. But I don't think this is a particularly big deal that it was done in the past.