Detail from the western frieze of the Parthenon. British Museum, London Photograph by Josse/Scala, Florence In 1687, during a war fought between Venice and the Ottomans, the great monument was ...

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5, No. 1, Mar., 1889 The Newly Discovered Head of Iris from t... The Newly Discovered Head of Iris from the Frieze of the Parthenon This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section.

Q: The sculptures within the Parthenon also seem to clearly pay tribute to the human form. Hurwit: Yes, and to the Athenians in particular. I think this is best expressed in the frieze that ...

"The whole international discussion about the return of the Parthenon Sculptures to Greece has resumed, thanks also to Italy".

One of the great monuments of world culture—a temple garlanded with masterful carvings—the Parthenon was designed ... single panels within the larger frieze, narrate mythological battles ...

Carlsruhe and Copenhagen have pieces of Parthenon metope slabs from the Doric frieze of the temple. Dr. Jan Six, the son of the Amsterdam medalist, and a descendant of Rembrandt's familiar ...

E ver since the early 19th century, when Thomas Bruce, seventh earl of Elgin, sawed off and crowbarred many of the carvings ...

The Fagan Fragment, a piece of the eastern frieze of the Parthenon, was part of the archaeological collection of the former British consul Robert Fagan. Its return to Greece was made possible ...