In A.E. Stallings’s Frieze Frame, the poet retells the many conflicts, political and cultural, the ransacked portion of the Parthenon has inspired. Sir William Gell (British, 1774–1836), The Removal ...
Just what Elgin had originally intended to do with the Marbles is unclear, but less selfless motivations are evident: His letters to his aide-de-camp in Athens, the Italian painter Giovanni Lusieri ...