Pediments are large triangular shaped niches ... in Athens to turn a blind eye while his craftsmen removed those parts of the Parthenon they particularly liked. Elgin never acquired the permission ...

The Venetians struck the first blow. In 1687, amid the Great Turkish War, Venice’s forces rained a fusillade of cannonballs on the Ottoman-held Parthenon in Athens, Greece. The Turks had been ...

It had two large-scale pediments, each filled with ... a perfect harmony of part to part and of parts to the whole. Q: So is it fair to say that the Parthenon's beauty comes from such a formula?

William Gell, The removal of the Sculptures from the Pediments of the Parthenon by Elgin ... the legal definition as immoveable parts of a building (as per the Temple of Preah Vihear); the ...

It had two large-scale pediments, each filled with ... a perfect harmony of part to part and of parts to the whole. Is it fair to say that the Parthenon's beauty comes from such a formula?

Until we had to replace our pediment and pilasters, I didn’t know what they were. Well, I knew that the Parthenon has a pediment, but I didn’t know that’s what the decorative molding atop a ...

They were carved in 447-432 B.C. to adorn the iconic Parthenon, a temple of the city’s patron goddess Athena, on the Acropolis hill. Free-standing statues filled the triangular pediments that ...

The sculptures at the British Museum make up about half of a 160-metre frieze which adorned the Parthenon temple ... from the temple's pediments. They are original parts of the temple dedicated ...

FILE - Women stand by a marble statue of a naked youth thought to represent Greek god Dionysos, center, from the east pediment of the Parthenon, on display during a media photo opportunity to ...

Trustees of the British Museum Head of a horse of Selene from the east pediment of the Parthenon at the British Museum. In the 19th Century, the British Ambassador Lord Elgin was granted ...

Successive Greek governments have lobbied for the return of the British Museum’s share of the works, which include statues from the Parthenon’s pediments - the all-marble building’s gables.

The classical marble statues were made between 447BC and 432BC to decorate the temple of Athena (the Parthenon) on the Acropolis in Athens. Head of a horse of Selene from the east pediment of the ...