British Museum Cleaning Elgin Marbles

Parthenon marbles elgin marbles artist phidias year c.

British museum cleaning elgin marbles.

While the debate rages on over where the elgin marbles should be there is another less talked about scandal that haunts the famous sculptures. 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. The british museum has admitted that the controversial elgin marbles were damaged by heavy handed cleaning 60 years ago. 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.

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. William st clair a historian claimed workers scrubbed the marbles with metal scrapers. Clair explains the damage to the. 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.

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. And it has said an attempt to cover up the damage to the marbles in the 1930s was a scandal. 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. British museum officials are to call in international experts to discuss damage caused to the elgin marbles.

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