Detail from the western frieze of the Parthenon. British Museum, London Photograph by Josse/Scala, Florence In 1687, during a war fought between Venice and the Ottomans, the great monument was ...

The Final Outcome The Economist highlights the global momentum for cultural restitution, urging museums to adopt policies ...

Q: The sculptures within the Parthenon also seem to clearly pay tribute to the human form. Hurwit: Yes, and to the Athenians in particular. I think this is best expressed in the frieze that ...

While the sculpted Ionic frieze of the Parthenon with its galloping horsemen and classically portrayed gods is reproduced in every art history text and has been much studied by scholars, no single ...

The activities and lesson plans developed for this Web site comprise a multidisciplinary unit that uses television, the Internet, and other resources as learning tools to explore and understand ...

Carlsruhe and Copenhagen have pieces of Parthenon metope slabs from the Doric frieze of the temple. Dr. Jan Six, the son of the Amsterdam medalist, and a descendant of Rembrandt's familiar ...

“The Parthenon frieze was created to be viewed at a certain height. Not at the height seen in the British Museum. Are they really better viewed in the British Museum or where it was meant to be ...

The sculptures, known as the Elgin Marbles in Britain, include part of a frieze, relief panels and other figures that were removed from the Parthenon in the early 19th century by Thomas Bruce ...

The marble figures are part of a frieze that decorated the 2,500-year old temple, made by the sculptor Phidias. The Parthenon Gallery at the Acropolis Museum was built more than a decade ago to ...