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THORN IN THE SIDE OF BRITISH INTEREST- are you kidding me? these English men came to India for their own selfish reasons and then they be like the Indians are thorns in their path?
Stunning buildings - albeit I can see why it could be annoying for the Indian peoples to have these buildings imposed on them without having being asked - and for very different repressive reasons. But I look to the Berlin parliament building in germany - the rebuild of the richestag was designed by fosters and partners. British architecture is still recognised the world over as amongst the finest. Whilst it wasn’t originally intended to be so - I hope our Indian cousins can now look at the new deli development as a project designed for them by their British servants Much in the same way Fosters and partners were in berlin when they rebuilt the reichstag.
This was excellent. India preserves all their buildings lovingly so. To this day they still have bagpipe parades for high occasions. Victoria Monument at Calcutta is maintained like a well kept grave, and a tourist destination for the India Citizenry. It’s here on RU-vid to see for yourself. The is a magnificent bridge very similar to the bridge at Sydney Harbor somewhere in India. It was constructed in 1934. India does have a rust issue due to the climate. Victorian Station in Bombay is a Cathedral of Transport. It’s a wee bit shabby and the tightness of once trimmed and manicured lawns and parterre aren’t up to snuff, but it’s all still used and the railroads are all still there……even many train cars are original and still running. The British proved themselves in the investments they made in India that are a blessing to this day. …..the liberal communists would of course poo poo me, but then what really have they ever created….other than giving everyone a hard time. Look at Europe today with its comical Fourth Reich,,the WEF. I’d take the British Empire any day of the week over the WEF and the EU. Feb 1,2024 T24
First of all, it's NOT Loacoon, it's Laocoon. Please learn to say the name of the artwork you are discussing. Secondly, it was not discovered by a farmer ploughing a field. It was discovered in an underground cavern in a vineyard - presumably a buried Roman building - together with other finds. There was no slow excavation from the earth; instead, they found the statues almost perfectly preserved, just sitting there waiting to be discovered. Here is what the architect Giuliano Sangallo's son Federico had to say about the discovery (she misquotes it somewhat, therefore here the correct text): 1506 Discovery of the Laocoon Letter written in 1566, 60 years later, by Francesco da Sangallo, son of the famous architect Giuliano Sangallo, describing this event. Both father and son were present at the scene of discovery, along with Michelangelo. “The first time I was in Rome when I was very young, the Pope [Julius II] was told about the discovery of some very beautiful statues in a vineyard near Santa Maria Maggiore [on the Esquiline Hill]. The pope ordered one of his officers to run and tell Giuliano da Sangallo to go and see them. He set off immediately. Since Michelangelo Buonarroti was always to be found at our house, my father having summoned him and having assigned him the commission of the Pope's tomb, my father wanted him to come along too. I joined up with my father and off we went. I had climbed down to where the statues were, when immediately my father said, 'That is the Laocoon, which Pliny mentions.' Then they dug the hole wider so that that they could pull the statue out. As soon as it was visible everyone started to draw, all the while discoursing on ancient things, chatting about the ones [ancient statues owned by the Medici] in Florence." Letter of Francesco da Sangallo, quoted in Leonard Barkan, Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture (1999), p. 3
It’s crazy how individuals with Indian heritage believe the possession of this artifact is justified. Yes, it is a war trophy it’s been over 200 years give that shxt back to the people of Southern India!
The "British Museum" is really a depot for storing and gloat over the plunder, in the form of priceless historical, cultural, and art treasures (and a lot of junk, too), which the UK pillaged, pilfered, or swindled from the nations they conquered through brutality and chicanery. They have absolutely no right or just claim to 80 percent of the spoils they marauded from those places like common thugs.
The British had arrived in the early 17th century as “traders”. Yeah, way to gloss over what the British were really doing meanwhile being completely condescending of other cultures for the entire rest of the video about ‘quaint’ other cultures. Typical British attitude, fawning over ‘quaint’ art that they looted, sacked and stole from other advanced cultures while refusing to give them back because they are aware that their museums would be completely void of anything interesting to see because all of what was genuinely considered having artistic merit and beautiful would be gone.. imperialism lives on! Look what savages can make, awww... meanwhile the British empire was so civilized murdering millions upon millions.. but drinking tea.. that they also stole.
I have an early facsimile of the Tokaido Road series purchased in Japan in the 1920s that is intact in the original fan fold binding that shows the prints in their proper sequence. I always wondered if a museum or collector would value the book as it shows how the series was first presented to the buyer of that series.
@@magma9000pakistan is an artificial state ,which is created from India , pakistans history starts from 1947 ,before that everything goes to India, you can claims things after independence.
