No one admires the relics of ancient Greece more deeply, or more acquisitively, than the British. For a look at a Greek art exhibition in the Royal Academy of Arts, 2,500 Londoners a day plunked down a shilling each. They got their shilling's worth. Mostly lent by private collectors—including 17 19th-Century paintings from King George's collection—the exhibition covered Greek art from an onion-smooth, onion-shaped head, carved about 3000 B.C., to a painting of Greek resistance fighters of World War II. The Royal Academy show did not compare with the Elgin marbles in the...
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