RESTORATION OF ELGIN MARBLES

Restoration of Elgin marbles



Restoration of Elgin marbles

Bruce Thomas was the seventh Earl of Elgin in 1771 at the age of five years. Lord Elgin in 1795 married Mary Nisbet of Earlton, a wealthy heiress. Elgin's appreciation for art and the British nobility led him to employ Thomas Harrison, an architect who had studied Greek and Roman styles of Greece. Elgin aspirations were filled in 1799, the year he was appointed British ambassador to Constantinople. The Turks had conquered and occupied Greece before and controlled the country, including, of course, Athens. (Williams, 1998, PP: 127-154)

The population of Athens at that time was approximately 10,000. Half of them were Greek, a quarter were Muslim Turks, who spoke mostly Greek, and the rest were non-Turks and other people among whom it met Albanians, Jews, Africans and some Western Europeans called francs. The city of Athens was cantered around the Acropolis, which was surrounded by a wall. In the dirty work shed and in the park, gardens wet house, they have been in recent years that Li Yili destruction in London and trying to find a buyer in wet weather. Trying to sell the Elgin Marbles to the British Government, but the asking price is too high, they declined the offer. Over the years, the sculpture of the English people's lives. Church built in the classical Greek-style buildings and houses. (Leontidou, 1993, p. 949-65) 

Elgin wrote the letter in 1815 admitted that the coal deposits sculpture is still in hospital in Burlington, destructive water damage. Finally, in 1816, marble sold to the British Government, Burlington House, and immediately transferred to the British Museum, where Duveen had his own expense for the completion of their special gallery. December 1940, Labour Party MEP, Mrs Kiel, asked Prime Minister Winston Churchill's statue, if the return part of the country will recognize the heroic resistance of the German and his massacre of the Greek people. The Acropolis itself was fortified, and was governed by two Ottoman officials, the Voivoda or civil governor, and the DISD, who was the military governor. The Archbishop of Athens was in charge of education and the rights of Christians. 

The sad story of the Parthenon marbles

The Parthenon is one of the greatest artistic achievements of all time. Several sculptures were removed from the temple and taken to England. The famous "Elgin Marbles" are currently in London. But an important question: Where should these sculptures? Here we will tell the history of the Sculptures of the Parthenon, based on the letter "The Parthenon and the Elgin Marbles" by Epaminondas Vranopoulos, published by The Society for Euboia Studies in 1985.

In their desire to familiarize his countrymen with Greek antiquities Elgin assembled a team of painters, architects and molders in plaster. In August 1800 Lord Elgin's team, led by the Reverend Philip Hunt and the Italian Giovanni Batista Lusieri, a landscape painter of the overall project manager, arrived in Athens. However, DISD, or military governor of the Acropolis, they demanded a sign, or authorization, to go up there because the Acropolis was a military installation. The group of artists recruited by Elgin spent the ...