It depends on points of view.Of course logic would recommend to reunite all the Parthenon’

It depends on points of view.Of course logic would recommend to reunite all the Parthenon’s friezes, I mean, visiting the Parthenon in Athens without being able to see most of the friezes, does not give you a proper image of the greatness of this temple.In 2009 it was built a new museum at the foot of the hill, It’s completely dedicated to the Acropolis, the saddest thing about this is that there’s a third floor, which is totally in glass and consecrated to the friezes, It’s not really empty because there are some copies exposed in that room, but it’s still kinda a shame that this museum which is supposed to be full of original pieces, It’s not.Indeed as everybody knows, in 1806 Lord Elgin took almost half of the Parthenon’s statues and He brought them in London, UK. To be honest the museum looks absolutely stunning anyway (I can tell)to have a confirm click here In 2013 it has been elected as the third best museum in the world after the Smithsonian Museum in Washington and the British Museum in London (and I’m like where the hell are Italian Museums like: Florence’s Uffizi, San Severo’s Chapel in Naples, Vatican’s Museums in Rome, Capitoline Museums, the Egyptian Museum in Turin, the Archeological museum of Naples????? nevermind)But I wanted also to reflect about another thing, 180 years ago when the Parthenon’s marbles were brought in London, Europeans started to admire how the real greek art that they had always heard of, was . Before they had the chance to admire some Roman art which is relevant, but still nothing compared to the Greek one, so these friezes totally changed the conception of classic art that the contemporaries had.Antonio Canova after seeing the marbles wrote: " I have seen the marble that came from Greece; about the bas-reliefs, you and and I already had an idea of the printed matter, from some chalk, and even a few pieces of marble; but the great figures in which the artist can make a show of his true knowledge, we knew nothing. If it is true that these are works were made by Phidias, or directed by him, or that he has put his hand there to finish them, these (friezes) clearly show that the great masters were true followers of the beautiful nature. They had nothing of sliced, nothing exaggerated, nothing hard, that is, those parts which I would call of convention or geometric. The works of Phidias are real meat, which is beautiful nature “ (sorry for the shitty translation)This made me think about how huge and important was the impact that those artifacts had on western europeans, it totally disrupted the conception of classic art, that they used to have.That’s why maybe the marbles should stay where they are, in the British Museum, because they changed european history and I think that’s relevant enough.But still, I don’t want to take an extra radical position about this issue, I just wanted to show these two different points of view that I find really important, since people often forget.to know more you should visit this website -- source link

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