Casts & connoisseurs: the early reception of the Elgin Marbles: this month is the 200th anniversary of the Elgin Marbles going on public view in London. The response they received was at first mixed, yet, for reasons that Marc Fehlmann explains, by the 1830s they had become integral to western art history and students everywhere were copying casts of them.

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When Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and 11th Earl of Kincardine (Fig. 1), presented the antiquities he had brought from Athens for the first time to the London public, in June 1807, he not only started a campaign to regain his monetary investments and public respect, he also initiated a change of taste that would make ancient Greece the dominant model of art and civilisation in the Western world. No other works of art from classical antiquity have since provoked such praise and such controversy as the Elgin Marbles; no other artefacts have for the last 200 years stirred such ...

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