Pantheon Marbles Research Paper
Elisa LastrucciArt History 1A
10/19/14
The Pantheon Marbles custody case
The Pantheon Marbles are a collection of classical Greek marble sculptures, inscriptions and architectural members. This collection was originally part of the Parthenon temple and other buildings around it on the Acropolis of Athens, Greece.
They are a masterpiece for ancient Greek art and a treasure for the world.
Those statues as always been part of the Pantheon complex until the Turkish conquered Greece and gained the power allover its artifacts and properties.
It had been relatively easy for Thomas Bruce, the seventh earl of Elgin, Britain, to buy from the Ottomans’ ambassador a wide range of art pieces for a low price.
He removed 56 pieces from the temple’s …show more content…
Having said that I think that every piece of art could have been more enjoyed and admired in its own primal place. And I don’t mean just the country where it’s from, but when possible, even the building where it had been placed.
I think it should be an extraordinary emotion to see what and how it should look like many years before us, in the place where that object was made up for, its real home.
Many years ago I visited the pyramids, I was a kid so I don’t remember it very clearly but I do remember how sad I was when I found out that inside they were almost empty. I expected to found a mummy, sarcophagus, canopic urns and all the stuff that belonged to that pharaoh and that pyramid.
I was so disappointed that someone had just took them away, to bring them who knows where.
Years later I visited with my school the Egyptian Museum in Turin which has, in my opinion, one of the best Egyptian collections I have ever seen. But when I was there I felt so sad, I felt like a thief because that pieces were not from Turin and neither from Italy and then it didn’t look so good as it could look in the pyramids, the real place where they
10/19/14
The Pantheon Marbles custody case
The Pantheon Marbles are a collection of classical Greek marble sculptures, inscriptions and architectural members. This collection was originally part of the Parthenon temple and other buildings around it on the Acropolis of Athens, Greece.
They are a masterpiece for ancient Greek art and a treasure for the world.
Those statues as always been part of the Pantheon complex until the Turkish conquered Greece and gained the power allover its artifacts and properties.
It had been relatively easy for Thomas Bruce, the seventh earl of Elgin, Britain, to buy from the Ottomans’ ambassador a wide range of art pieces for a low price.
He removed 56 pieces from the temple’s …show more content…
Having said that I think that every piece of art could have been more enjoyed and admired in its own primal place. And I don’t mean just the country where it’s from, but when possible, even the building where it had been placed.
I think it should be an extraordinary emotion to see what and how it should look like many years before us, in the place where that object was made up for, its real home.
Many years ago I visited the pyramids, I was a kid so I don’t remember it very clearly but I do remember how sad I was when I found out that inside they were almost empty. I expected to found a mummy, sarcophagus, canopic urns and all the stuff that belonged to that pharaoh and that pyramid.
I was so disappointed that someone had just took them away, to bring them who knows where.
Years later I visited with my school the Egyptian Museum in Turin which has, in my opinion, one of the best Egyptian collections I have ever seen. But when I was there I felt so sad, I felt like a thief because that pieces were not from Turin and neither from Italy and then it didn’t look so good as it could look in the pyramids, the real place where they