Other Displaced Parthenon Art
The remainder of the surviving sculptures that are not in museums or storerooms in Athens are held in museums in various locations across Europe. The British Museum also holds additional fragments from the Parthenon sculptures acquired from various collections that have no connection with Lord Elgin.
The collection held in the British Museum includes the following material from the Acropolis:
- Parthenon: 247 ft (75 m) of the original 524 ft (160 m) of frieze
- 15 of the 92 metopes
- 17 pedimental figures; various pieces of architecture
- Erechtheion: a Caryatid, a column and other architectural members
- Propylaia: Architectural members
- Temple of Athena Nike: 4 slabs of the frieze and architectural members
Read more about this topic: Elgin Marbles
Famous quotes containing the words displaced and/or art:
“Our ancestors were savages. The story of Romulus and Remus being suckled by a wolf is not a meaningless fable. The founders of every state which has risen to eminence have drawn their nourishment and vigor from a similar wild source. It was because the children of the Empire were not suckled by the wolf that they were conquered and displaced by the children of the northern forests who were.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous.... Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.”
—Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978)