ARCH 4200 Chapter 2: Reading 2 - “Who Owns the Past- Legal, Cultural, and Ethical Issues Relating to the Return of the Parthenon Marbles” - Vardas
7 Oct 2015
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Legal, cultural, and ethical issues relating to the return of the. Caryatids: symbolism, + story (king + daughters + oracle) Buildings include: erechtheum, the propylaea, the temple of athena nike and the. 12m tall gold and ivory statue which went missing in the 5th century. Knowledge of it from copies and pausinias" writings in the 2nd century. No two doric columns are the same. Its design is too complicated to be reduced to any standard formula or measure of proportion. 1674 jacques carrey artistically recorded most of the parthenon statues. 1687-was blown up while housing gunpowder-blew out roof and 13 pillars. The marbles were pillaged by european collectors or used as building material. Britain"s earl of elgin (thomas bruce) used his power as ambassador to procured the marbles to decorate his estate in scotland. 1800 marbles were torn and sawed off carelessly. 1803-1806 held prisoner by napoleon when trying to return to britain.
