Almost all of Rodin’s main sculptures are represented in this exhibition. The pieces of the Parthenon pediment, originally in sequence, have a particular intensity and completeness when displayed ...

Modern Greece (at least the parts that most tourists see) lends itself to reinforcing this perception. ... You can see her on the west pediment of the Parthenon gallery in the British Museum, ...

His famous work depicting a couple embracing, The Kiss (1882), for example, was influenced by a pair of erotic female goddesses originally on the East Pediment of the Parthenon. Rodin owned an ...

Well-established in the time before Christ, the pediment retains its role in architecture today, helping it harken back to a classical style. ... The Parthenon, 432 B.C., ...

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 ...

In 1801 a British nobleman stripped the Parthenon of many of its sculptures and took them to England. Controversy over their acquisition by the British Museum continues to this day. Was it ...

William Gell, "The Removal of the Sculptures from the Pediment of the Parthenon by Elgin" (1801) watercolor on laid paper, 7.87 x 12.2 inches, Benaki Museum ...

Well, I knew that the Parthenon has a pediment, but I didn’t know that’s what the decorative molding atop a doorway — even a doorway in a suburban Colonial — is called.

5. Another remarkable fact is that the 24-foot-tall double doors at each end of The Parthenon are one-foot thick and each weigh seven and a half tons, but almost anyone can open and shut them with ...

- Restoration work on Athens' Acropolis is set to shift to the west side of the Parthenon under a 40-year-long effort to restore the ancient archaeological monument, officials said Thursday.

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.