The pieces of the Parthenon pediment, originally in sequence, have a particular intensity and completeness when displayed alone, as do the various parts of Rodin’s Gates of Hell (1880–1917), inspired ...

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 ...

Ian Jenkins, the lead curator, wants visitors to “see the Parthenon sculptures through Rodin’s eyes”. Rodin, the greatest sculptor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, travelled to ...

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Contested prospect: two new books see the Parthenon through the eyes of a legal expert and a lifelong scholar of Greek history ...

That’s one of the reasons why it came as such a shock to the unsuspecting parts of the academic community when traces of Egyptian Blue, an ancient pigment that fell out of fashion around 800AD, were ...

Parthenon Sculptures, which are originally from the temple of Athena in Greece, were brought to Britain by Lord Elgin Pressure has been growing on the British Museum - and others institutions ...

Moves are afoot in the UK to return the Parthenon Marbles to Greece, after a years-long tug-of-war between London and Athens. Lord Ed Vaizey, a former Conservative culture minister, is to chair a ...

The proposal to create high-quality replicas could serve as a compromise, allowing the British Museum to retain a display while returning the originals to Athens.

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 Parthenon Project, which campaigns for a cultural partnership agreement, advocates the British Museum send the sculptures to the Parthenon Collection in the Acropolis Museum in Athens in ...

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.