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Ian Dennis Jenkins OBE FSA (18 February 1953 – 28 November 2020) was a Senior Curator at the British Museum who was an expert on ancient Greece and specialised in ancient Greek sculpture. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Jenkins published a number of books and more than a hundred articles. [ 3 ]
The Elgin Marbles (/ ˈ ɛ l ɡ ɪ n / EL-ghin) [1] are a collection of Ancient Greek sculptures from the Parthenon and other structures from the Acropolis of Athens, removed from Ottoman Greece and shipped to Britain by agents of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, and now held in the British Museum in London.
Sculptures in the British Museum originating from Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
The British Museum houses the biggest collection of Chinese relics anywhere in the West – at least 23,000 objects – ranging from paintings that date back to the Tang dynasty (618 to 907 AD) to ...
The marble statues came from friezes on the 2,500-year-old Parthenon temple, and have been displayed at the museum for more than 200 years since they were removed by Lord Elgin when he was British ...
The British Museum has lent for the first time in 250 years an ancient Greek water vase, the Meidias hydria, to the Acropolis Museum in Athens for an exhibition which begins this week and runs ...
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. ... Ancient Greece (8th century BC – 4th ...
British Museum, London, UK 100,000 objects [3] National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece 100,000 objects [4] Antikensammlung Berlin, (Held at the Altes Museum, Neues Museum and Pergamon Museum), Berlin, Germany 60,000 objects [5] [6] [7] Istanbul Archaeology Museum, Istanbul, Turkey 53,000 objects [8] (Misleading Collection. Total ...