Father agathangelos in the convent of the french capuchins (1751), wherein the ancient monument of lysikrates was intergrated (center right). His successor, italian father urban from genoa, saved the monument--the best preserved ancient choragic (sponsored) monument in athens--from the british ambassador to the ottoman empire thomas bruce, 7th earl of elgin, who planned to take the entire monument to england (1801-1802). The convent was burned down to ruins in 1821, at the beginning of the greek war of independence. Date: 1751.
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