The Parthenon was far more than a temple. It was Athens’ ultimate power move, which combined religion, politics, and economic ...

In “Frieze Frame: How Poets, Painters, and Their Friends Framed the Debate Around Elgin and the Marbles of the Parthenon,” the poet A.E. Stallings surveys responses to the Marbles by artists ...

A new study has found that the Parthenon sculptures, previously thought to be white, were once painted with elaborate designs and patterns on their garments, using colors such as “Egyptian blue.” ...

Around the corner from the Parthenon Sculptures at the British Museum, the lesser-known frieze from the temple of Apollo at Bassae depicts Greek battles of legend in panels of breathless action.

The following essay has been adapted from the new book The Parthenon Marbles Dispute: Heritage, Law, Politics (Hart / Bloomsbury, 2023) by Alexander Herman, director of the Institute of Art and ...

Pope Francis has ordered the Vatican Museums to return three Parthenon fragments to Greece amid a global reckoning in which Western institutions have begun to return remains and artifacts to their ...

Housing more than 4,000 works of art, ... that will most likely be missing is the so-called Elgin Marbles, sculptural works that include 247 feet of the original Parthenon frieze.

Does art belong to all of humanity, or is it fundamentally rooted in the particular culture in which it was produced? The Parthenon Marbles: The Case for Reunification By Christopher Hitchens ...

But they weren’t always that way, according to a new study, which found the famous 2,500-year-old Parthenon sculptures were colorful, painted with floral patterns and other elaborate designs.

At the British Museum recently, the gallery where the marbles are displayed was filled with tourists, many snapping selfies in front of the statues and the frieze. Dilan Polat (20) an art student ...

‘Frieze Frame’ Review: The Case of the Parthenon Marbles In early 19th-century London, the arrival of temple artworks taken from the Acropolis of Athens inspired both poetic raptures and angry ...