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The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. [3] It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.
It is home to one of the world's greatest collections of Western European paintings. Founded in 1824, from an initial purchase of 36 paintings by the British Government, its collections have since grown to about 2,300 paintings by roughly 750 artists dating from the mid-13th century to 1900, most of which are on display.
The Catalogue of paintings in the National Gallery, London is the collection catalogue listing the paintings of the National Gallery, London collection, as they were catalogued in 2010 by the Public Catalogue Foundation. The collection contains roughly 2,300 paintings by 750 artists, and only attributed artists are listed here.
Tate Britain, known from 1897 to 1932 as the National Gallery of British Art and from 1932 to 2000 as the Tate Gallery, is an art museum on Millbank in the City of Westminster in London, England. [3] It is part of the Tate network of galleries in England, with Tate Modern , Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives .
Elgin rescued the marbles from destruction and those in the British Museum are in better condition than those left behind. The British Museum has a right to retain and publicly display what it preserved from destruction. [122] Bringing the Parthenon sculptures together as a unified whole is impossible as half had been lost or destroyed by 1800 ...
From 1992 to 1998, the cup was put on display at Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as an anonymous loan. [6] [45] It was the subject of a devoted exhibition in Room 3 at the British Museum from 11 May to 2 July 2006, entitled "The Warren Cup: Sex and society in ancient Greece and Rome."
Cavalcade south frieze, X XI, 26–28, British Museum The Parthenon frieze is the defining monument of the High Classical style of Attic sculpture. [ 31 ] It stands between the gradual eclipse of the Severe style , as witnessed on the Parthenon metopes, [ 32 ] and the evolution of the Late Classical Rich style , exemplified by the Nike balustrade .
The Portland Vase is a Roman cameo glass vase, which is dated between AD 1 and AD 25, though low BC dates have some scholarly support. [1] It is the best known piece of Roman cameo glass and has served as an inspiration to many glass and porcelain makers from about the beginning of the 18th century onwards.