led Elgin to request that a British warship docked in the port of Piraeus near Athens take the heaviest sculptures from the Parthenon pediments. Elgin had managed to keep the marbles from the ...

And the Parthenon, like certain statues created in the fifth century ... It had two large-scale pediments, each filled with over 20, larger-than-life-sized marble figures in compositions that ...

The genius behind the Parthenon's sculptures was the architect and artist ... size allegorical frieze of sacred and profane love on a pediment of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, unveiled in ...

East Pediment depicts the birth of Athena. (photo credit: EWY Media. Via Shutterstock) Progress in the negotiations for the return of the Parthenon sculptures to Greece was reported at a recent ...

the Vatican Museums returned three pieces of the Parthenon's frieze, metopes decorative band and pediments. The heads of a youth, a bearded man and a horse were reunited with the sculptures on ...