"sculpture" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Mr. MacGregor's latest public statement, posted on the Internet this month, insists, "Only here can the worldwide significance of the Parthenon sculptures be fully grasped."
- If traces of pigment have been detected on the Parthenon sculptures, who is to say when this color was applied?
- In 1931 the art dealer Sir Joseph Duveen offered funds to build a gallery for the Parthenon sculptures.
- It was built to hold the Parthenon sculpture in natural sunlight that characterises the Athenian climate, arranged in the same way as they would have been on the Parthenon.
- The British Museum also holds additional fragments from the Parthenon sculptures acquired from various collections that have no connection with Lord Elgin.
- The new museum has been built partly in order to press the British Museum and other institutions - such as the Louvre, which own parts of the Parthenon sculptures - into returning them.
- Admiration of them reached its highest pitch in the 18th and 19th centuries; they were described as "the Parthenon sculptures of modern art".
- Tourist dollars aside, the Greeks have long said that they want the marbles back to reunite the Parthenon sculptures on the site where they came from.
- Dorothy King defends the British Museum in her breezy history of the Parthenon sculptures, The Elgin Marbles, says David Smith.
- The Parthenon sculptures are not a matter for the Council as the European Community has no competence in this subject.
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