The Parthenon remained a temple for a millennium ... the building was safe because the Venetians cherished its Christian history. But the Venetians bombarded the building with cannon fire; an ...

Many collections of Parthenon statuary housed in the world ... One of the greatest artworks in human history was now housed in the middle of London, a vital propaganda tool in projecting the ...

View of one of the 46 outer columns of the Parthenon, showing the precisely executed fluting (or vertical grooves). Hand-carving these flutes after the erection of the columns was one of the most ...

The ecumenical "donation" by the Vatican furthers a campaign to press the British Museum to hand back a collection of ...

Still, the Acropolis and the Parthenon in particular had a checkered history. In 427 or 426, an earthquake apparently struck Athens, and struck hard, displacing some of the columns a few ...

believing it could withstand bombardment just as it had weathered history. Not so. The explosion demolished most of the Parthenon’s walls and columns, wrecking its architraves, triglyphs ...

More than 2,400 years after its construction, the Parthenon—the sanctuary to the goddess Athena—still dominates the skyline of the Acropolis in Athens. The structure, originally painted in ...

Parthenon sculpture ... One of the most striking things about recent European history is how countries wanting to define and strengthen their present identity look to particular moments in ...

The Parthenon sculptures set out to present an ... One of the most striking things about recent European history is how countries wanting to define and strengthen their present identity look ...