The problem with protecting public art is, well, it's public.

Jeon Hyeongpil contributed at his own expense to protect Korean culture and art.

After all, protecting art from simplicity and commerce was precisely the task intellectuals set for themselves.

In 1932, he overtook his work to collect Korean antiquities at own expense to protect Korean art and culture.

European museum officials took extraordinary measures to protect art from Hitler and the ensuing war.

In addition to natural flora and fauna, the park protects Aboriginal art and occupation sites of the Jardwadjali people.

"Protecting the environment, and art, are both about quality of life," she said.

But Hockney says "the power is with images", and in neglecting them the artworld has diminished the very thing it aimed to protect: art.

She had spent all of her adult life protecting and collecting stolen art and antiquities.

"The Spanish Civil War was perhaps the first conflict in which both sides took measures to protect art."