Greece have been placed in the British museum‚ they are recognized as the Elgin Marbles. The Elgin Marbles continue to be the main point of an ongoing debate that will basically determine the historical influence of an important culture. Some of the sculptures that were removed were the marble figures‚ metopes (sculptures in high relief) and friezes. To this day the Greek government has correctly requested the return of the Elgin Marbles a few times while the British government has frequently refuse
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these points in a well-organized manner that keeps the paper flowing and continuously makes sense to the reader. Merryman tries to remain as unbiased as he can‚ but with all the facts presented‚ it is hard to not see the article as biased towards the British. Overall‚ the article boils down to Greece winning the emotional argument‚ but Britain holds power with a legal ownership. Was the removal of the marbles from the Parthenon legal? The answer to this commonly asked question is one hundred percent
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2.3 Market Analysis There is a huge “The Hunk” was place about a house’s roof in the middle of the housing area. It was a landmark and also a benchmark for the Toy Museum Melaka. Previously the Toy Museum Melaka was located at Jonker Street but now‚ it was at Bukit Baru. By collecting all kinds of toys from different parts of country‚ they used low price to buy and treat the toys from owners. In this view‚ they managed to collect and display some old type of toys and limited edition one. The
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identity and why keeping them in Britain makes sense. Finally‚ the third section focuses on the location of the antiquities in relation to the accessibility by scholars and world-travelers. The first point to be debated revolves around Lord Elgin‚ British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople. Elgin received a firman from the Ottoman Sultan to make sketches and casts of the Parthenon’s sculptures‚ to deconstruct buildings if it was necessary to view the antiquities‚ and to remove sculptures
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of Benin have been controversial and continue to be so. The Places which home the artwork of Benin have and continue to cause controversy. They did not always as they did in the late nineteenth century languish in cramped displays set up by museums around the world‚ or in sitting rooms of private collectors but were originally preserved in Benin’s royal place‚ Benin City. The debate over who should own them is also controversial. They never used
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such a degree; many British people thought Elgin had committed acts of cultural vandalism. In 1816‚ he was forced to sell the sculptures to the British Government to alleviate a great debt. Prior to the transaction between Elgin and Britain‚ a Parliamentary committee was selected to debate the legality of Elgin’s ownership. The British government decided to purchase the sculptures from Lord Elgin at half his investment and exclaimed they would be better cared for by their museum than returning back
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Publications Ltd.‚ 1986. Web. Nov. 2012. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/882655>. Whipple‚ David. "Textile Designs and Books by William Morris." JSTOR. Cleveland Museum of Art‚ 1978. Web. Nov. 2012. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159593>. "William Morris & Wallpaper Design." Victoria and Albert Museum. Victoria and Albert Museum‚ 2012. Web. Nov. 2012. <http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/w/william-morris-and-wallpaper- design/>. Medium: Oil Paint on Canvas Size: Support: 718 x
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theft of art is often controversial. The removal of art‚ especially ancient objects taken from the county of origin by colonizers can be defined as theft. In 1846‚ the Elgin Marbles were removed from Greece by Thomas Bruce and shipped to the British Museum with permission of the Ottoman Empire. The removal of that classic marble statuary that once stood in the Parthenon is disputed to this
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A Gap of Sky ”A Gap of Sky” is a short story by Anna Hope. In this short story we follow the young girl‚ Ellie‚ who studies at UCL. Instead of doing homework and study‚ she likes to party and do drugs. She has been sent to London by her parents to study‚ but she is not taking it as serious as her parents are expecting of her to do. She lives alone and is therefore supposed to be self-dependent which we clearly see she is not. She cannot control her use of drugs‚ she has not got any self-discipline
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Rodgers Take-Home Essay‚ Test 1 October 20‚ 2014 The Bull Lyre and The People of Ur The Bull Lyre was discovered in Iraq in 1929 by the archeologist‚ Sir Leonard Woolley. In 1926 Leonard Woolley had been elected by the Pennsylvanian and British museums of Archeology and Anthropology to lead an excavation that would examine the surrounding area of the mysterious ziggurat of Ur. Along with his team of excavators‚ Woolley was the first to unearth the “Royal Cemetery” of Ur‚ a mass grave full of
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