Architectural evidence and historic record, including reference to the Parthenon's 40-foot-high, gold-and-ivory statue of Athena, essentially confirm the building's original function as a temple.
As a result, each of the Parthenon's 70,000 pieces is unique and fits in only one place. To replace original pieces that are missing, because they either have been looted and are now in museums ...
The British Museum should return the ancient treasures to Greece for the sake of art, not nationalism.
Many collections of Parthenon statuary housed in the world ... providing models for artists, the original pieces were displayed together with molds of the missing fragments.
Although Nashville's Parthenon was only meant to be temporary ... housing models of the statues found in the original structure as well as an impressive art collection. Travelers praise ...
Parthenon sculpture ... that it's hard now to recover their original impact. But at the time of their making they were a quite new vision of what it meant, intellectually and physically, to ...
should return to its original place at the Acropolis Museum in Athens. The Fagan Fragment, a piece of the eastern frieze of the Parthenon, was part of the archaeological collection of the former ...
The closest I will ever come to seeing the Parthenon in its original, intact form is by playing Assassin’s Creed Odyssey on PlayStation, or visiting the replica Parthenon in Nashville (which is ...
The Parthenon sculptures set out to present an ... that it's hard now to recover their original impact. But at the time of their making they were a quite new vision of what it meant ...