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By an act of parliament, the British Museum Act 1816, the collection was transferred to the British Museum on the condition that it be kept together and named "the Elgin Marbles". [12] The term "Parthenon Marbles" or "Parthenon Sculptures" refers to the sculptures and architectural features removed specifically from the Parthenon. [2]
Wilson was born on 30 October 1931 in Dacre Banks, near Harrogate, England. [2] He was the son of Joseph Wilson, a minister, and Nora, a lecturer. [2] From 1941 to 1950, Wilson was educated at Kingswood School, a boarding independent school for boys (now co-educational) in Bath, [3] followed by St John's College, Cambridge, from where he obtained a Master of Arts. [2]
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Imperial Spoils: The Curious Case of the Elgin Marbles is a 1987 book by Christopher Hitchens on the controversy surrounding the removal by Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin of the Parthenon's sculptured friezes (which became known as the Elgin Marbles), and his subsequent sale of the Marbles to the British Museum.
The sculpture collection in the British Museum consists of 15 metopes (sculpted relief panels), 17 pedimental figures, and 247 ft. of the original 524-ft. Parthenon frieze which shows a procession ...
The Elgin Marbles (Parthenon Sculptures) Sections of the Parthenon Sculptures on display in the British Museum (Matthew Fearn/PA) The Elgin Marbles, or Parthenon Sculptures, come from the temple ...
Hunt testified to the Parliamentary committee on the Elgin Marbles on 13 March 1816. [40] The committee's report contained a translation (via Italian) of the second firman. [41] [42] The Italian original is extant. [17] Hunt's testimony was that the interpretation by the vaivode of the second firman was the basis for the removals of marbles. [43]
Thus began an ongoing dispute between the museum and Greece over ownership of the 2,500-year-old marbles, today also referred to by some in the U.K. as the Elgin Marbles. Greece, U.K. Spar Over ...