Greek lawmakers have elected a former parliament speaker and leading advocate for the return of the disputed Parthenon sculptures from the British Museum as the country’s new president ...

Lord Elgin agreed and enlisted a team of artists ... Lusieri and his men dismantled a large part of the frieze from the Parthenon as well as numerous capitals and metopes. Finally in 1803, the ...

While Lord Elgin had received the necessary permit to look for and examine sculptures in and around the Parthenon, it is unclear whether he had permission from the Ottomans to remove them from the ...

Greece has a new president. Here’s what it means in the battle for the Elgin Marbles - Greek lawmakers have elected a leading advocate for the return of the disputed sculptures ...

For many liberals and radicals, beginning with Lord Byron, Elgin was a vandal who had committed ... garlanded with masterful carvings—the Parthenon was designed by Phidias to celebrate the ...

A former Greek parliament speaker and a leading advocate for the return of the Elgin Marbles from the British Museum to ...

Marble; from the Parthenon, Athens Around 1800, Lord Elgin removed some of the sculptures from the ruins of the Parthenon in Athens, and a few years later put them on public show in London.

The sculptures were removed from the Acropolis in Athens by British diplomat Lord Elgin in the early 1800s ... and seeks to reunite them with other Parthenon artifacts displayed in a museum ...

A diplomatic spat over the hotly contested Parthenon Marbles was ... The sculptures, also known as the ‘Elgin Marbles’, were removed by British diplomat Lord Elgin with the consent of the ...

Elizabeth Marlowe, founder of the Museum Studies Program at Colgate University, gave a lecture on decolonizing museums ...

Around 1800, Lord Elgin removed some of the sculptures from the ruins of the Parthenon in Athens, and a few years later put them on public show in London. For most western Europeans it was the ...

For many liberals and radicals, beginning with Lord Byron, Elgin was a vandal who had committed sacrilege ... government and the British Museum over the potential return of the Parthenon marbles were ...