The British Museum’s Blockbuster Scandals
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.
Scholars have concluded that Clytie's bosom was enhanced to accentuate the bust's erotic charge; Townley's discobolus, unearthed in a state of decapitation, was fitted with a head from a different sculpture.