British Museum Cleaning Elgin Marbles

Ian jenkins greek architecture and its sculpture in the british museum british museum press 2006 mary beard the parthenon profile 2002 william st clair lord elgin and the marbles 3rd edition oxford university press.

British museum cleaning elgin marbles.

Clair explains the damage to the. A section of marble frieze sculpture 438 432 bc from the parthenon in athens part of the collection that is popularly referred to as the elgin marbles at the british museum. The director of the british museum has provoked anger by suggesting the removal of the parthenon marbles from greece in the 19th century could be seen as a creative act. Parthenon marbles elgin marbles artist phidias year c.

The new acropolis. While the debate rages on over where the elgin marbles should be there is another less talked about scandal that haunts the famous sculptures. And it has said an attempt to cover up the damage to the marbles in the 1930s was a scandal. The british museum has admitted that the controversial elgin marbles were damaged by heavy handed cleaning 60 years ago.

Elgin voleva che i marmi fossero collocati al british museum e li vendette al governo britannico che li acquistò per meno del costo di scavo e trasporto benché altri possibili acquirenti tra cui napoleone avessero offerto molto di. γλυπτά του παρθενώνα also known as the elgin marbles ˈ ɛ l ɡ ɪ n are a collection of classical greek marble sculptures made under the supervision of the architect and sculptor phidias and his. William st clair a historian claimed workers scrubbed the marbles with metal scrapers. Greece on saturday urged britain to return the parthenon marbles often known as the elgin marbles as one of the world s greatest ancient sites the acropolis re opens after the coronavirus.

Hartwig fischer gave.