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Elgin marbles
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Elgin marbles. These were part of the frieze and pediment of the Parthenon of Athens and other carvings from
c.440 bc, sent to England by the 7th earl of Elgin. While British ambassador in Constantinople, he obtained authority from the Turks first to study, then to remove some of the antiquities, which were badly looked after. After an eventful journey during which some of the carvings were shipwrecked and the earl detained in France, the sculptures arrived in England to controversy about the wisdom and validity of their purchase by the government. Finally in 1816 Elgin received £35,000, much less than his expenses, and the marbles were placed in the British Museum. The Greek government has at times requested their return.
June Cochrane
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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How Lord Elgin lost his marbles; JULIAN CHAMPKIN tells the tragic story of Lord Elgin's obsession with the controversial Greek masterpieces - and how it eventually ruined him.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 6/25/2004; 700+ words
; ...trudge around the small town of Elgin in the north of Scotland...long journey there to see the Elgin marbles. They are disappointed...has been for nothing. The Elgin marbles, of course, are in the British...displayed - a collection of marble sculptures that formed a frieze...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Do Elgin's letters solve the marble fight?; Bribes and debts cloud the issue, finds Joan Gralla.
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 5/2/2000; 700+ words
; ...workmen had removed one of marbles from a wall since he...firman. Rudenstine said Elgin was excited that it gave...mould and dig around the marble temple dedicated to Athena...peace and cities. Elgin's letter made no mention of taking marbles off the Parthenon wall...work team wrote back to ...
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BUILDING A LIBRARY ; The Elgin Marbles
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 3/11/2007; ; 654 words
; ...British Museum, the beauty of the Elgin marbles has moved me to tears and inspired...should include the 400-page Lord Elgin and the Marbles: the controversial...When you know the complex history of Elgin and the marbles, it's clear it...
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COLUMN: Returning the Elgin Marbles
News Wire article from: University Wire; 12/7/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...on the fate of the Elgin Marbles, a group of 17 figures...the room where the marbles were displayed...recognition that Elgin may have more or...the presence of the marbles. With the Olympics...The presence of the Elgin Marbles in London...
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Bribes may cost Elgin his marbles
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 11/30/1999; ; 700+ words
; LORD ELGIN paid huge bribes to Turkish...officials to enable him to remove marble statues and friezes from...Evidence of the bribery in Elgin family papers proves that...collection, now known as the Elgin Marbles, were obtained illegally...
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The Elgin Marbles, romanticism & the waning of 'ideal beauty'.
Magazine article from: Daedalus; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...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...questioning that took place at the Elgin Marbles hearing: "Does the Apollo Belvedere...
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 "The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario)")
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They want to take their marbles and go home; Now that Greece has a museum for Elgin's booty the question must be asked Who owns the past?(Insight)
Newspaper article from: The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario); 6/20/2009; 700+ words
; ...Inside, the sculpted marble frieze that once covered...originals of which, the Elgin marbles, have resided in the...argument - if it had the Elgin marbles, more than 85 per cent...untrue. Half the outer marble panels, a third of...European museums.) Elgin later wrote that it...
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Would you swap an Elgin marble for a planespotter in an anorak?
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 5/4/2002; ; 700+ words
; SHARED OPINION British liberals tend to think that we should return the Elgin marbles to Greece. Let us hope that Greek liberals are demanding of the Greek minister of culture that the British planespotters be returned...
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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.
Magazine article from: Apollo; 6/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...controversy as the Elgin Marbles; no other artefacts...the export of the marbles and other antiquities...Initially, Lord Elgin did not intend to...townhouse to display the marbles. Hunt, who was...to Mary, Countess Elgin. (18) Meanwhile...
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 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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GIVE BACK THE ELGIN MARBLES.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 1/13/2004; 700+ words
; ...ROBIN COOK TOMORROW Marbles Reunited is launched...000 years until Lord Elgin pulled them down. The...freedom, denounced Elgin as a plunderer and a...that could be said for Elgin is that he removed the Marbles from what was then a...
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Elgin Marbles
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Elgin Marbles A collection of Greek sculpture and architectural...British diplomat Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766–1841), in 1801...x2018;You have lost your labour, my Lord Elgin. Your marbles are overrated: they are...
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Elgin marbles
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Elgin marbles. These were part of the frieze and pediment...bc, sent to England by the 7th earl of Elgin. While British ambassador in Constantinople...purchase by the government. Finally in 1816 Elgin received £35,000, much less...
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marble
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
marble (Greek: marmaros...hard and dense. Marbles are widely distributed...Pentelicon in Attica. The Elgin Marbles are carved in Pentelic...translucent white marbles from the Aegean islands...and Naxos. Parian marble was used for the...
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8th Earl of Elgin
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
8th Earl of Elgin James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811-1863), was the governor general of Canada...autonomous nations. The son of the 7th Earl of Elgin, who collected the Elgin Marbles for the British Museum, James Bruce was born in...
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Elgin, Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Elgin, Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of (1766–1841) British...under Turkish control). The British government vindicated Elgin's actions and purchased the ‘Elgin Marbles’ from him in 1816 for £35,000 to exhibit...
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