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The Museum has called for a new Parthenon partnership with colleagues in Greece and constructive discussions are on-going. The British Museum enjoys a good professional relationship with the Acropolis Museum, which in recent years has included scholarly workshops, staff placements and sharing knowledge over a wide range of subjects from colour on ancient sculpture to museum display and ...
Sep 14, 2024 · Pantheon, building in Rome that was begun in 27 BC by the statesman Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, probably as a building of the ordinary Classical temple style. It was completely rebuilt by the emperor Hadrian sometime between AD 118 and 128, and some alterations were made in the early 3rd century.
Chrám byl postaven vedle komplexu dalších staveb na Akropoli v době největšího rozmachu Athén za Perikla jako okázalá demonstrace bohatství (pokladnice) [1] a moci Athén a v neposlední řadě jako oslava demokracie.
The Parthenon, as it appears today on the summit of the Acropolis, seems like a timeless monument—one that has been seamlessly transmitted from its moment of creation, some two and a half millennia ago, to the present.
Jan 15, 2021 · The Parthenon in Athens was built almost 2,500 years ago in 438 BC. Built as a temple dedicated to the Greek goddess Athena, it was later converted to a church, and finally, as Greece succumbed to Turkish rule in the 15th century, a mosque.
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Sep 7, 2024 · three female sculptures from the Parthenon Female figures, interpreted as (left to right) Hestia, Dione, and her daughter Aphrodite or (right to left) Thalassa (the Sea), resting against Gaia (the Earth), and an unknown figure, section of the east pediment of the Parthenon at Athens, 438–432 bce; part of a collection sometimes called the Elgin Marbles in the British Museum, London.
The Pantheon (UK: / ˈ p æ n θ i ə n /, US: /-ɒ n /; [1] Latin: Pantheum, [nb 1] from Greek Πάνθειον Pantheion, "[temple] of all the gods") is a former Roman temple and, since AD 609, a Catholic church (Basilica Santa Maria ad Martyres or Basilica of St. Mary and the Martyrs) in Rome, Italy.
