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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 134. Chapters: Ancient Greek art, Ancient Roman art, Greek and Roman objects in the British Museum, Hellenistic art, Pliny the Elder, Portland Vase, Natural History, Fayum mummy portraits, Amazonomachy, Elgin Marbles, Ancient Roman pottery, Greco-Buddhist art, Art in ancient Greece, Halo, Bassae Frieze, Parthenon Frieze, Fibula, Harpy Tomb, Hellenistic Glass, Lycurgus Cup, Nereid Monument, Crouching Venus, Muscle cuirass, The Beauty of Durres, Cameo glass, Warren Cup, Tomb of Aline, Minoan Bull-leaper, Guilford Puteal, Early Christian art and architecture, Velificatio, Gorgoneion, Alexander Mosaic, Constitution of the Athenians, Diadumenos, Gonzaga Cameo, Nile mosaic of Palestrina, Jennings Dog, Derveni krater, Tomb of Payava, Tabula ansata, Chatsworth Head, Stone palette, Dionysus Sardanapalus, Cup of the Ptolemies, Piranesi Vase, Archangel ivory, Neo-Attic, Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, Verism, Roman mosaic, Herculean Sarcophagus of Genzano, Severan art, Cave of Archedemos the Nympholept, Roman portraiture, Campo Iemini Venus, Townley Venus, Proclus, Opus interassile, Xenia motif, Choiseul-Gouffier Apollo, S Curve, Strangford Apollo, Ninnion Tablet, Farnese Diadumenos. Excerpt: The Parthenon Marbles, forming a part of the collection known as the Elgin Marbles ( ), are a collection of classical Greek marble sculptures (mostly by Phidias and his pupils), inscriptions and architectural members that originally were part of the Parthenon and other buildings on the Acropolis of Athens. Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1799-1803, had obtained a controversial permit from the Ottoman authorities to remove pieces from the Acropolis. From 1801 to 1812 Elgin's agents removed about half of the surviving sculptures of the Parthenon, as well as architectural members and...
