Known as the Parthenon Sculptures, they are also called the Elgin Marbles, after the Scottish nobleman Lord Elgin, who stripped them from the ancient Acropolis in Athens in 1801 and sold them to the British government in 1816. For nearly two centuries the sculptures have been housed in the ...
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Profiles Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, who in the first decade of the 19th century, rashly though legally, removed nearly half the statuary from the Parthenon of Athens. Shipped them to England; Cost him his fortune, career, reputation, wife,freedom for three years; Poignant drama entwined...
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think of them as big, sort of almost like warehouses of loot. They are part of the history. And for a long time in my early years as a curator here, I could only display this material in terms of the British sensibility. It was another way of interpreting Britain’s place in the ...