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The Elgin Marbles (/ ˈ ɛ l ɡ ɪ n / EL-ghin) [1] [2] are a collection of Ancient Greek sculptures from the Parthenon and other structures from the Acropolis of Athens, removed from Ottoman Greece and shipped to Britain by agents of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, and now held in the British Museum in London.
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. [3] It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.
Pages in category "Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures in the British Museum" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In 1975, the museum attempted to replicate the sculpture's original appearance by painting a cast of the figure. The replica is displayed next to a second, unpainted cast as a challenge to the erroneous equation of ancient Greek sculpture with pure white marble. [4] The museum also holds a large collection of sherds and epigraphic squeezes.
African sculptures in the British Museum (9 P) Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures in the British Museum (2 C, 36 P) Asian sculptures in the British Museum (13 P)
Victoria and Albert Museum, entrance façade c. 1905–6: Alfred Drury [45] Edward VII: Temple Bar: 1879–80 Joseph Edgar Boehm [39] Victoria and Albert Museum, entrance façade 1906 Sir William Goscombe John [45] Outside Tooting Broadway tube station: 1911 Louis Fritz Roselieb, later Louis Frederick Roslyn [50] Waterloo Place 1921 (unveiled ...
Image credits: JamesLucasIT Sculpture as an art form dates back to 32,000 years B.C. Back then, of course, small animal and human figures carved in bone, ivory, or stone counted as sculptures.
Local history and culture [3] Bruce Castle Museum: Tottenham: Haringey: North: Local: Local history, culture Brunei Gallery: Bloomsbury: Camden: North: Art: Part of the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London, historic and contemporary works from and about Africa and Asia, including photography and culture Brunel ...