While his wife organized sumptuous parties, Lord Elgin sent Lusieri and his team to Athens to sketch ancient ... successive Greek governments have petitioned for the return of the Parthenon ...
"For me the Parthenon sculptures reveal to us the tensions, the discontents, the conflicts, and also the sheer brilliance of Ancient Greek culture. For the modern Greeks, the Parthenon sculptures ...
(The word parthenon in its Greek form means "of the virgins ... Unlike the lead-coated iron the ancient Greeks had used, Balanos's clamps were exposed to the elements and eventually corroded.
This sculpture from the Parthenon shows a Centaur rearing triumphantly over a dying human Lapith. This focus on human suffering epitomises the intense humanism of Greek art. The sculpture also ...
That's because early restorers, most notoriously a Greek engineer named Nikaloas ... to the new marble. As in ancient times, the Parthenon workplace today is less a construction site and more ...
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Andrew Norman Wilson, a prolific and influential British author who regularly writes for The Times of London, expressed his opposition to any scenario involving the return of the Parthenon ...