The problem with some of the most wonderful works of art made through history is their irreplaceability. The Colossus of Rhodes, destroyed in an earthquake; Vermeer's The Concert (picture above) and John Banvard's Mississippi River Panorama, among others, came in a time when art couldn't be replicated, and so their uniqueness is gone for all eternity.
(via Environmental Graffiti)
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also The Lighthouse of Alexandria is one of the greatest lost.
Would be nice if it was't copied from oddee's 10 Amazing Works of Art that are Lost Forever, from a week earlier: http://www.oddee.com/item_98664.aspx
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