"It is absolutely necessary for Germany to send the base of the Discobolus back to Rome as soon as possible. The base by itself without the sculpture has no historical or artistic value, it is in storage where no one can see it”. These were the words of Director of the Uffizi Galleries Eike Schmidt yesterday on the sidelines of the presentation of the "Divina Simulacra" exhibition. "Precisely in order to recontextualize it," added the German-born new citizen of Italy, "it is absolutely necessary to send it back to Italy, and therefore I make an appeal to all my compatriots in my country of birth - of the nation to which I continue to belong, even though I am now Italian - for the return of the base, which is of enormous value for the statue of the Discobolus, which in Germany makes no sense”.
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