The British Museum should return the ancient treasures to Greece for the sake of art, not nationalism.

Faint traces of the painting survive today. In 1687, when Venetian forces that were part of a Holy League against the Ottoman Empire raided Athens, the Ottomans converted the Parthenon into an ...

The Parthenon marbles have become the most visible ... 1817: The First Elgin RoomThis 1819 painting by Archibald Archer depicts the exhibition of the marbles in their first, temporary space ...

But in the 21st century, the Elgin Marbles, as they've long been known, are famous less as art objects than as objects of political controversy. For most people today, the Parthenon sculptures in ...

We can only imagine how glorious the Parthenon must have appeared in the ... But classical scholar Jeffrey Hurwit, a professor of art history at the University of Oregon and expert on the ...

Nashville, United States - December 28, 2024 Originally built for the 1897 Tennessee Centennial Exposition, this replica of the Parthenon in Athens, Greece, serves as a monument to what is ...

Wilson emphasizes that the Parthenon Marbles represent a connection ... He emphasizes that the human element of Phidias' sculptural art places man at the center of our understanding, not only ...