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After the blast, what remained of the Parthenon’s metopes, or relief-carved panels ... City Times—and it is not the only Parthenon sculpture to be so divided. “We have from the same figure ...
A 14th-century relief carved by Andrea Pisano ... was the towering sculpture dedicated to Athena in the Parthenon of Athens. Greek artisans typically worked ivory on a small scale.
Will the return of the sculpture, which will go on display in Thessaloniki, put extra pressure on the British Museum to return the Parthenon Marbles ... part of a funerary relief from a cemetery ...
(Cameos are carved in raised relief, intaglios in negative relief ... problem of the museum’s possession of the Parthenon Sculptures. Not long after being appointed to the board, he reportedly ...
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 Parthenon sculptures consist of 15 metopes (sculpted relief panels), 17 pedimental figures (sculptures from the triangular space that forms the gable of a low-pitched roof) and 247 feet of the ...
They were carved in 447-432 B.C. to adorn the iconic Parthenon, a temple of the city ... while an unbroken strip of relief sculpture — the frieze — depicting a religious procession ran ...
Relief sculpture ‘The Cavalcade’ of Horsemen from the south frieze of the Parthenon; marble relief sculpture, 438 – 432 BC. Part of the Elgin Marbles and thought to be by Phidias ...
The sculpture collection in the British Museum consists of 15 metopes (sculpted relief panels), 17 pedimental figures, and 247 ft. of the original 524-ft. Parthenon frieze which shows a procession ...
WHY THEY ARE IN BRITAIN? 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 ...