The Elgin Marbles, romanticism & the waning of 'ideal beauty'.

Daedalus | September 22, 2002| | Copyright

On June 7, 1816, the House of Commons, after an unprecedented debate, voted to purchase a collection of ancient Greek marbles from Thomas Bruce, the seventh Earl of Elgin. A former ambassador to Turkey, Elgin had convinced the local authorities to allow artists in his employ not only to draw and take plaster casts from the Parthenon in Athens, but also to take sculpture and inscriptions whose removal would not 'detract' from the walls of the temple. In the end, however, Elgin went beyond his original mandate, amassing a vast store of treasures that included the choicest ...

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