The 7 Most Famous Works Of Art Lost Forever

Odds and Sods

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.

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