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Today the building is used as an art gallery housing a collection of paintings and portraits by American artists. Its architect was not new in building Parthenon. Customs House. Today it is a museum honoring the first inauguration. The similarities with the Parthenon are obvious, although this design had piers on the wide sides instead of colonnades and no sculptural decoration. Interestingly it also features a dome that makes its interior appearance more Pantheon- than Parthenon-like.
The famous memorial honoring the 16th president of the U. The monument was built in out of white marble and is one of the most popular monuments in the U. One more difference with the Parthenon of Athens is that while inside the original, one would find a colossal statue of Athena, here one will encounter a colossal statue of Abraham Lincoln.
The ruins of the photo above do not belong to an ancient Greek temple but to yet another modern reproduction of the Parthenon, this time in Edinburgh. The monument was meant to commemorate the fallen soldiers of the Napoleonic Wars. The Parthenon of Calton hill would be an ideal juxtaposition to the medieval castle of that old city. Together they designed a Parthenon with catacombs that could accommodate the tombs of prominent Scottish intellectuals and nobles.
The construction began in but stopped three years later, in The Parthenon had proved more costly than expected. Today it is a monument to a time when the Scots turned to the classical past for answers to modern questions. In , Prince Ludwig of Bavaria had the idea of creating a memorial to commemorate the deeds of his German ancestors. At a time when German unification was gaining momentum, Ludwig was looking for opportunities.
The architect chosen was Leo Von Klenze , an important figure in the history of Neoclassicism. As a devoted student of Greek architecture, Klenze found it fitting to model the monument after the Parthenon. Behind this conception lay the idea that Germans and ancient Greeks shared a common heritage.
The Walhalla, finished in , is breath-taking. It is made of white marble and sits on top of a massive substructure overseeing the Danube river. Lord Elgin was the British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire and successfully petitioned the authorities to be able to draw, measure and remove figures.
He was granted a permit firman , and between and acting under the oversight of the relevant authorities, Elgin removed about half of the remaining sculptures from the ruins of the Parthenon. He also obtained permission to have removed sculptural and architectural elements from other buildings on the Acropolis, namely the Erechtheion, the Temple of Athena Nike and the Propylaia.
All of Elgin's collection of antiquities was then transported to Britain. His actions were thoroughly investigated by a Parliamentary Select Committee in and found to be entirely legal, prior to the sculptures entering the collection of the British Museum by Act of Parliament. A formal request for the permanent return to Greece of all of the Parthenon Sculptures in the Museum's collection was first made in There have been various meetings and discussions since then.
Media coverage has referred to Greek government requests to borrow the sculptures, but a loan request has never been received. The Trustees will consider any loan request for any part of the collection subject to all our normal loan conditions. Successive Greek governments have refused to acknowledge the Trustees' title to the Parthenon Sculptures.
The British Museum enjoys a good professional relationship with the Acropolis Museum , which in recent years has included scholarly workshops, staff placements and sharing knowledge over a wide range of subjects from colour on ancient sculpture to museum display and presentation.
The British Museum is wholeheartedly committed to respectful collaboration worldwide, to sharing and lending the collection, and working in partnership for the benefit of the widest possible audience. The Museum takes its commitment to be a world museum seriously. The collection is a unique resource to explore the richness, diversity and complexity of all human history, our shared humanity.
The strength of the collection is its breadth and depth which allows millions of visitors an understanding of the cultures of the world and how they interconnect — whether through trade, migration, conquest, conflict, or peaceful exchange. The Parthenon Sculptures are an integral part of that story and a vital element in this interconnected world collection, particularly in the way in which they convey the influences between Egyptian, Persian, Greek and Roman cultures.
We share this collection with the widest possible public, lending objects all over the world and making images and information on over four million objects from the collection available online. The approach of the Acropolis Museum and the British Museum are complementary: the Acropolis Museum provides an in-depth view of the ancient history of its city, the British Museum offers a sense of the wider cultural context and sustained interaction with the neighbouring civilisations of Egypt and the Near East which contributed to the unique achievements of ancient Greece.
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