President of China, Xi Jinping arrives in London, 19 October 2015 (via the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Flickrstream) The British Museum in London, which for decades evaded the Greek government’s ...
With Greek legislative elections six months away, how and when one of the world’s most intractable cases of cultural plunder comes to a resolution will almost certainly have a political impact that ...
Restoration work on Athens' Acropolis is set to shift to the west side of the Parthenon under a 40-year-long effort to restore the ancient archaeological monument, officials said Thursday. "Most of ...
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum has pledged not to dismantle its collection, following a report that the institution’s chairman has held secret talks with Greece’s prime minister over the return of ...
The following essay has been adapted from the new book The Parthenon Marbles Dispute: Heritage, Law, Politics (Hart / Bloomsbury, 2023) by Alexander Herman, director of the Institute of Art and Law. I ...
Three fragments of the Parthenon marbles in the Vatican museums are returning to Greece under an initiative of Pope Francis, and will go on display in Athens on March 24. Photo: Sculpture of man’s ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This engraving, taken from a 1683 ...