The frieze from the temple of Apollo at Bassae in southwestern Greece is in the British Museum, around the corner from the marbles that Lord Elgin took from the Parthenon at Athens. Both temples ...

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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 ...

The story of how the 21 figures from the Parthenon’s pediments sculpted by Phidias some 2,450 years ago, along 246 feet of the Parthenon frieze, ended up in the British Museum is well known: In 1801, ...

Greece has asked the British Museum to return all of the frieze in its collection, about 250 feet of carved stone that once wrapped around the Parthenon, on a long-term basis.

The Parthenon was built between 447-432 B.C. and is considered the crowning work of classical architecture. The frieze depicted a procession in honor of Athena.

The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna has a tiny collection of marbles - just two fragments from the Parthenon's northern frieze. But Greece hopes that with each agreement to return pieces to ...

UK’s snub is latest drama as Greece tries to get back its ancient Parthenon sculptures Britain has held the works, 17 pedimental figures, 15 panels and 247 feet of a frieze, for 200 years.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called off a meeting with his Greek counterpart over his call for the return of the 2,500-year-old Parthenon Sculptures from the British Museum.

The following essay has been adapted from the new book The Parthenon Marbles Dispute: Heritage, Law, Politics (Hart / Bloomsbury, 2023) by Alexander Herman, director of the Institute of Art and ...

Though the Kunsthistorisches Museum owns just two small fragments from the 2,500-year-old Parthenon, the institution’s repatriation comes at a crucial time for Greece as the country seeks to ...

But they weren’t always that way, according to a new study, which found the famous 2,500-year-old Parthenon sculptures were colorful, painted with floral patterns and other elaborate designs.