Rod: "Call me Mr. Superficial, but the Parthenon marbles are in such a ruined state I get little enjoyment from looking at them."
Call me Mr. Marbles, but walking into that room was one the greatest experiences of my life. One pediment (triangular arrangement)is in mere fragments, but the other pediment figures are missing only their heads for the most part. The three seated goddesses (one half-reclining) sculpture is to me unsurpassed by anything anywhere in any art form (I didn't say unequalled, but unsurpassed). The frieze and the square metopes are also in pretty good shape. One can't mind a missing nose, head or foot in a great Greek sculpture, when there is so much left to enjoy as there is in that room. We are lucky to have them at all, and I bless that thief Lord Elgin, who saved them from almost certain destruction in the lime kilns, where they would have been burned to be spread on the fields for farming!!
But this Parthenon stuff is getting too off-topic now...
Chaszz
[This message has been edited by Chaszz (edited July 22, 2003).]
Call me Mr. Marbles, but walking into that room was one the greatest experiences of my life. One pediment (triangular arrangement)is in mere fragments, but the other pediment figures are missing only their heads for the most part. The three seated goddesses (one half-reclining) sculpture is to me unsurpassed by anything anywhere in any art form (I didn't say unequalled, but unsurpassed). The frieze and the square metopes are also in pretty good shape. One can't mind a missing nose, head or foot in a great Greek sculpture, when there is so much left to enjoy as there is in that room. We are lucky to have them at all, and I bless that thief Lord Elgin, who saved them from almost certain destruction in the lime kilns, where they would have been burned to be spread on the fields for farming!!
But this Parthenon stuff is getting too off-topic now...
Chaszz
[This message has been edited by Chaszz (edited July 22, 2003).]
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