Product Description: The Elgin Marbles, brought to England from Athens in 1806, are the subject of three of Hazlitt’s most famous and enduring essays: "On the Elgin Marbles," "On the Elgin Marbles: The Illisus," and "Prose Style and the Elgin Marbles...read more

A photographic tour of one of the most famous of the surviving sculptures from ancient Greece in the British Museum - the Parthenon sculptures. This book showcases a series of photographs of the different sculptural elements: the pediments, metopes and Ionic frieze.

An exploration of the British aristocracy during the Romantic era as reflected by the life of Mary Nisbet, the Countess of Elgin, discusses her history-making work as the Ambassador Extraordinaire to the Ottoman Empire, from her efforts to bring the smallpox vaccine to the Middle East to her safe removal of classical marbles from the Parthenon. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

An exploration of the British aristocracy during the Romantic era as reflected by the life of Mary Nisbet, the Countess of Elgin, discusses her history-making work as the Ambassador Extraordinaire to the Ottoman Empire.

Based on a detailed study of both original records and recent discoveries, Lord Elgin and the Marbles is the authoritative historical account of the extraordinary circumstances in which the Elgin Marbles were acquired, of the tremendous impact which they made on modern appreciation of Greek art, and of the bitter reaction of Napoleon, Byron, and many others to their appropriation. In the concluding chapters of his book, St. Clair adds further fuel to the controversy by revealing for the first time some disturbing details about the treatment of the Marbles while in the British Museum's care, and of the British Museum's response to public concerns about this important cultural artefact. (view table of contents)

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This work tells the story of the Elgin marbles, beginning in the fifth century BC when the Parthenon was built in Athens. It explains what the sculptures represent, who made them and how they fitted into the grand design of the temple.

Traces the history of the Parthenon, explains how and why its sculptures and friezes were taken to Britain, and discusses the arguments for returning them

Product Description: Although it was Thomas, the seventh Earl, who by his acquisition of the Greek Marbles brought unwelcome and continuing notoriety to the Elgin name, it is James, the eighth Earl, who is the hero of this book. Did Byron's furious 'Curse of Minerva' hurled at Thomas for his activities in Greece--that all Elgin's sons be 'without one spark of intellectual fire'--succeed only in producing perhaps the most sensitive and forward-looking British proconsul of the Victorian age? James, as a colonial administrator, showed courage, determination and resource in handling difficult situations in Jamaica, Canada, China, Japan and India...read more