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Letter
The Parthenon sculptures
02/2023 | 1439 | 165
Pages: 108
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Author:
Stocker, Mark (Stocker, Mark)
Subjects
subjects:
Parthenon, Athens, Greece / Sculpture / Elgin Marbles (British Museum, London) / Restitution / Digital technology / Copies
Letter
The Parthenon sculptures
02/2023 | 1439 | 165
Pages: 108
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Author:
Karkazis, Miltos (Karkazis, Miltos)
Subjects
subjects:
Elgin Marbles (British Museum, London) / Parthenon, Athens, Greece / Sculpture
subjects:
Restitution
Editorial
The Parthenon sculptures
11/2022 | 1436 | 164
Pages: 1063
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Subjects
buildings:
Parthenon, Athens, Greece
museums and institutions:
Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece / British Museum, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Restitution / Sculpture / Greek (ancient) School / Parthenon, Athens, Greece
works:
Elgin Marbles (British Museum, London)
Book Review
Casting the Parthenon Sculptures from the Eighteenth Century to the Digital Age
12/2021 | 1425 | 163
Pages: 1210-1211
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Reviewer:
Marchand, Eckart (Marchand, Eckart)
Subjects
subjects:
Elgin Marbles (British Museum, London) / Parthenon, Athens, Greece / Sculpture / Plaster casts / Digital technology
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Casting the Parthenon Sculptures from the Eighteenth Century to the Digital Age By Emma M. Payne. 224 pp. incl. 88 b. & w. ills. (Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2021), £85. ISBN 978–1–350–12034–1. | :
Book Review
Plaster Monuments: Architecture and the Power of Reproduction. By Mari Lending
07/2018 | 1384 | 160
Pages: 610-611
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Reviewer:
Wells, Matthew (Wells, Matthew)
Subjects
art literature:
Cole, Henry, 1808-1882 / Barringer, Tim / Albers, Josef / Rudolph, Paul
art literature:
Fergusson, James / Robinson, Edward
artists:
Sachy, Alexandre de / Arrondelle, Eugène / Ghiberti, Lorenzo
dates:
1850-1899 / 1900-1999 / 2000-2009 / 2010-2019
media:
Sculpture / Plaster / Architectural components
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain / Musée National des Monuments Français, Paris, France / British Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
Europe
subjects:
Casts (sculpture) / Reproductions / Copies / Originality / Museology / Curators / Restoration (process) / Art market / Cultural property / Colonialism / Damage to works of art
works:
Bronze doors (Baptistry, Florence) / Elgin Marbles (British Museum, London)
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
6. The twelth-century gallery in the Musée de sculpture comparée, Paris. A cast of the Erechtheion caryatid from the British Museum, London, is juxtaposed with the ‘smiling angel’ from Reims Cathedral. From P. F. J. Marcou, Album du Musée de Sculpture Comparée, vol. 2 (Paris, 1897).
Exhibition Review
Rodin and the Art of Ancient Greece. British Museum, London
07/2018 | 1384 | 160
Pages: 578-580
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Reviewer:
Thomson, Richard (Thomson, Richard)
Subjects
art literature:
Graf Kessler, Harry
artists:
Rodin, Auguste
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Sculpture / Reliefs
museums and institutions:
British Museum, London, Great Britain / Musée Rodin, Paris, France
places:
Great Britain / London / France / Paris
subjects:
French sculpture / Greek (ancient) sculpture / Greek (ancient) architecture / Greek iconography / Greek (ancient) / Neo-classicism / Antiquities / Parthenon, Athens, Greece / Exposition universelle internationale de Paris (1900) / Collecting / Restoration (process) / Friezes / Ornament / Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)
works:
Elgin Marbles (British Museum, London) / The Gates of Hell (Musée Rodin, Paris)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Ancient scene, by Auguste Rodin. Before 1870. Canvas, 81.2 by 126 cm. (Musée Rodin, Paris; exh. British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
2. Pallas (Athena) with the Parthenon, by Auguste Rodin. 1896. Marble and plaster, 47 by 38.7 by 31 cm. (Musée Rodin, Paris; exh. British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
3. The kiss, large version, by Auguste Rodin. 1888–98. Plaster, cast from marble after 1898, 184 by 112 by 110 cm. (Musée Rodin, Paris; exh. British Museum, London).
Western art unattributed:
4. Goddesses in diaphanous drapery, Figures L and M from the East Pediment of the Parthenon. c.438–32 BC. Marble, 123 by 233 by 98 cm. (British Museum, London).
Article
Drawing in exile: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux and the Elgin Marbles
11/2014 | 1340 | 156
Pages: 746-748
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Author:
Sloan, Rachel (Sloan, Rachel)
Subjects
artists:
Carpeaux, Jean-Baptiste / Frémiet, Emmanuel
dates:
1860-1869 / 1870-1879
museums and institutions:
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, United States
places:
Paris
subjects:
Drawings / Acquisitions / Collections, Public / Fountains / French sculpture / Visual sources
subjects:
French architecture / Public sculpture
works:
Elgin Marbles (British Museum, London)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
34. Studies of horses (after the antique), by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)
Attributed works:
35. Fontaine de l'Observatoire, by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux and Emmanuel Fremiet (Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris)
Western art unattributed:
36. The horses of Helios (Parthenon sculptures). (British Museum, London)
Western art unattributed:
37. The horse of Selene (Parthenon sculptures). (British Museum, London)
Editorial
Scratching the Surface
02/2000 | 1163 | 142
Pages: 75
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Subjects
dates:
2000-2009
museums and institutions:
British Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
England / London
subjects:
Sculpture / Marbles / Conservation
subjects:
Art museums
works:
Elgin Marbles (British Museum, London)
Editorial
Re-Distributing the Art of the past
04/1941 | 457 | 78
Pages: 105
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Subjects
dates:
1940-1949
places:
England / Greece
subjects:
Art museums / Works of art / Repatriation
works:
Elgin Marbles (British Museum, London)