British Museum Cleaning Elgin Marbles

A section of marble frieze sculpture 438 432 bc from the parthenon in athens part of the collection that is popularly referred to as the elgin marbles at the british museum.

British museum cleaning elgin marbles.

Greece on saturday urged britain to return the parthenon marbles often known as the elgin marbles as one of the world s greatest ancient sites the acropolis re opens after the coronavirus. British museum officials are to call in international experts to discuss damage caused to the elgin marbles. The director of the british museum has provoked anger by suggesting the removal of the parthenon marbles from greece in the 19th century could be seen as a creative act. γλυπτά του παρθενώνα also known as the elgin marbles ˈ ɛ l ɡ ɪ n are a collection of classical greek marble sculptures made under the supervision of the architect and sculptor phidias and his.

The british museum has admitted that the controversial elgin marbles were damaged by heavy handed cleaning 60 years ago. While the debate rages on over where the elgin marbles should be there is another less talked about scandal that haunts the famous sculptures. Elgin voleva che i marmi fossero collocati al british museum e li vendette al governo britannico che li acquistò per meno del costo di scavo e trasporto benché altri possibili acquirenti tra cui napoleone avessero offerto molto di. And it has said an attempt to cover up the damage to the marbles in the 1930s was a scandal.

Ian jenkins greek architecture and its sculpture in the british museum british museum press 2006 mary beard the parthenon profile 2002 william st clair lord elgin and the marbles 3rd edition oxford university press. Hartwig fischer gave. William st clair a historian claimed workers scrubbed the marbles with metal scrapers. Cleaning of the parthenon marbles was undertaken over a period of fifteen months from 1938 to 1939 when museum workmen without official authorisation used copper tools to remove what they believed was dirt but was in reality the.

447 438 bce type marble dimensions 75 m 246 ft location british museum london the parthenon marbles greek.