Trustees of the British Museum Marble statue from the West pediment of the Parthenon at the British Museum The British Museum told the BBC it believed a "long term partnership would strike the ...

You can now get a sense of the awe-inspiring Parthenon in all its former glory thanks to a multiyear endeavor merging history ...

They were carved in 447-432 B.C. to adorn the iconic Parthenon, a temple of the city’s patron goddess Athena, on the Acropolis hill. Free-standing statues filled the triangular pediments that ...

And while examples of pediment sculptures, metopes and a sculpted frieze can be found elsewhere, only on the Parthenon did the three elements come together in such a fulsome display. No expense ...

and the pediment sculptures had to be removed so they did not pose a danger to the visitors below. By 1915, the Park Board decided to initiate plans to reconstruct the Parthenon. Russell Hart ...

"Horse's head attributed to the West pediment" from the Vatican ... procession" from the Vatican Museum's collection of Parthenon Sculptures. Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports “Among critics ...

The ancient sculptures were taken from the Parthenon temple at the Acropolis ... and figures of gods and heroes from the temple's pediments. They are original parts of the temple dedicated to ...

The collection includes 15 sculpted relief panels and figures of gods and heroes from the temple's pediments ... holds the sculptures that remain in Greece. With a view of the Parthenon, the ...

Plaster replicas of the original Parthenon marbles that embellish its pediment can be found in the top floor Treasury Room. With the unfortunate and significant deterioration of Greece’s ...

The Parthenon Sculptures — or Elgin Marbles ... The sculptures fall into three categories: friezes, metopes and pediment statues. And Elgin was the artist, right? Er, no. That would be ...

The classical marble statues were made between 447BC and 432BC to decorate the temple of Athena (the Parthenon) on the Acropolis in Athens. Head of a horse of Selene from the east pediment of the ...