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Lost Art
classical period
The "Colossus of Rhodes", one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
The "Statue of Zeus at Olympia," one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
The "Athena Parthenos", originally housed in the Parthenon
5th century
Mosaic of portraits of members of the Western and Eastern imperial family and the bishop of Ravenna, commissioned by Galla Placidia in the church of San Giovanni Evangelista, Ravenna (c. 425 CE). Destroyed by 1747.
equestrian monument (the "Regisole") to Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths built in Ravenna. Moved to Pavia in the Middle Ages, he stood before the cathedral. Destroyed by French troops under Napoleon, 1796.
6th century
The Buddhas of Bamiyan, destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.
8th century
Many icons were destroyed during the reign of Leo III the Isaurian, including a famous image of Christ on the Chalke Gate Chalkites. Only a few icons of that time survive, rescued outside of imperial control at St. Catherine's Monastery in Sinai.
11th century
The last part of the Bayeux Tapestry has been deliberately withdrawn at any time, and is now lost.
14th century
Committees altarpiece by Duccio di Buoninsegna Maesta, painted for Siena Cathedral, representing the Coronation of the Virgin Mary of the Assumption, the Ascension of Christ, and Christ in Majesty, are missing and presumed lost.
The large mosaic Navicella Giotto di Bondone on the porch of the Old St. Peter's Basilica has been extensively reworked in the 17th century.
allegorical fresco by Giotto in the Municipality of Florence portrayed as a judge sitting with scepter, flanked by figures of Fortitude, Prudence, Justice and Temperance, painted for the Palazzo del Podesta, now in the Bargello, Florence. Described by Giorgio Vasari.
Giotto frescoes (Stories of the Apostles) to the Giugni Chapel of the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence.
A lost painting of the Virgin by Giotto was bequeathed by the poet Petrarch Francesca da Carrara, lord of Padua in 1370.
Fresco, St. Margaret of Cortona Suppolino bringing back to life, by Ambrogio Lorenzetti in the church of Santa Margherita, Cortona. Destroyed in mid - 17th century.
A lost portrait of Laura de Noves Petrarch by Simone Martini is the subject of one of Petrarch's sonnets.
15th century
Virgin enthroned with Saints and Angels (1402) by Lorenzo Monaco. Destroyed by fire in the Friedrichshain Flakturm after the capture of Berlin, May 1945.
Statue of Joshua Clay sculpture by Donatello to the north gallery of the Duomo of Florence (c. 1410). Disappeared in the 18th century.
Statue of Abundance (dovizia) stone sculpted by Donatello (1428). On a column placed first in the baptistery of the cathedral later in the Mercato Vecchio, Florence. Replaced in the 18th century, now lost.
Gentile da Fabriano fresco and Pisanello in the Basilica of St. John Lateran, Rome. Destroyed in reconstruction, 1647.
fresco cycle of 300 images of famous men by Masolino da Panicale and Paolo Uccello (c. 1432) for the palace of Cardinal Orsini in Rome. A copy of watercolors by Leonardo da Besozzo survives.
La Sagra del Carmine, monochrome fresco for the cloister of Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence, by Masaccio (1425) representing the consecration of the church in 1422. Destroyed in 1600.
Fresco of the confirmation of settlement of the Carmelites by Filippo Lippi in the cloister of Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence. Destroyed by fire 1771. A fragment discovered in 1860 survives in place.
A crucifix was painted by Fra Angelico for the Dominican church of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, 1423.
School of Fra Angelico. Doomsday (1456). Destroyed by fire in the Friedrichshain Flakturm after the capture of Berlin, May 1945.
Fresco of the Flagellation by Andre.