Many decades before the 1821 revolution, even before the theories of the German Joachim Vinkelman, who separated Ancient Greek Art from Ancient Rome and displayed with enthusiasm the superiority of
“You, Englishmen, who take away the artifacts of our ancestors, should take good care of them because there will come a time when we, Greeks, will ask them back.” These
John Keats was 21 years old in 1817 when he wrote the poem “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles”, where he expressed mixed feelings of awe for the sculptures and their
Negotiating with the British Museum, Elgin set as a condition these masterpieces of our ancestors to bear his name. So unfortunately from 1816 until today they are called ‘Elgin
By Evagellos Fylaktos The sculptures decorating the Parthenon consist of three separate units: the statues on the pediments, the metopes and the frieze. Within the two triangular tympana of
