The Elgin Marbles or the Parthenon Marbles

Introduction

Bruce Thomas was one of the 7th Earl of Elgin. The Elgin married Mary Nisbet of Earlton in 1795, a wealthy heiress. Elgin's appreciation for art and the nobility of Britishers made him to appoint Thomas Harrison as an Architect, because he knows everything about both Greek and Roman styles of Greece. Elgin aspirations were filled in 1799, the year he was appointed British ambassador to Constantinople. Greece was ruled by Turks as they have conquered it and ruled the complete Greece including Athens.

Discussion

A controversial story of 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 UK. 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 (Beriatos 2004, p. 187-202).

Owner of the Marbles still controversial

On 6 July the same year the Ottoman government, which was in excellent relations with the British for having defeated the French they supposedly gave Elgin the sign, which was granted to the team of five artists employed to service a permission to enter and leave the Acropolis, to secure scaffolding around the ancient temple, to model in lime and plaster statues that were visible, or even to dig the foundation if deemed necessary to seek registration. But the sign did not say anything to the dismantling of damaged buildings or sculptures. However, Philip Hunt, chaplain and secretary to Lord Elgin, he accepted the Turkish authorities that the sign actually allowed them to dig and be dug material or be any part, coming from where come, even if he were still in place on the monument. The judicial body was concerned with the question about how to preserve it. The debate whether to return the Elgin Marbles to Greece or not still found to be a politically charged topic. (Boyer 1996, p 154-196).

Alongside the political symbolism that collections can generate there are also wider political dimensions to these collections in terms of the operational activities undertaken within the museums and galleries sector as a whole. At the financial level the care, management and display of collections consumes a considerable part of the resources of the sector: amongst the national museums, for example, care, conservation and research associated with their collections consumed 49% of the budget of the British Museum in 2009, 50% of that of the Natural History Museum in 2007, 65% of the Horniman Museum's in 2009, and 61% of that of the National ...