Sir Robert Smirke's masterpiece was this London museum based on classical Greek designs
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Free Flashcards about ARCHITECTURE - StudyStack  SIR ROBERT SMIRKE'S MASTERPIECE WAS THIS LONDON MUSEUM BASED ON CLASSICAL GREEK DESIGNS... BRITISH MUSEUM. SIR BASIL SPENCE...
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British Museum - Wikipedia  The British Museum is dedicated to human history, art and culture, and is located in the Bloomsbury area of London. ... The British Museum was established in 1753, largely based on the collections of the .... The Museum became a construction site as Sir Robert Smirke's grand neo-classical building gradually arose.
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Neoclassical Art, Neoclassicism (1770-1830)  A Neoclassical masterpiece by the ... Classical Greek Painting ... For examples of interior design in France during the neoclassical period, see: French Decorative Art. For fine .... The British Museum, London (begun 1823) by Sir Robert Smirke.
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Neoclassical Architecture (1640-1850) - Visual Arts Encyclopedia  Neoclassical Architecture (1640-1850): History, Designs, Architects: Carl Gotthard ... based to a varying extent on the antique forms of Greek architecture and ... to the Classical Orders of Greek and Roman Antiquity on a monumental level, ... Gallery; and Sir Robert Smirke (1780-1867), designer of the British Museum, the...
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British Museum - Architecture  The core of today's building was designed by the architect Sir Robert Smirke ... frame of the building was made from cast iron and filled in with London stock brick. ... The design of the columns has been borrowed from ancient Greek temples,...
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Full text of "The Table Book of Art a History of Art in all Countries and ...  227 INDEX 242 1 ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL. ARTIST. SUBJECT. PACE. i. ... The museums of Italy are full of beautiful relics of Greek statuary. ... of a new road, which it has l     m^ THE TABLE BOOK OF ART [b. c. 490. had to re- mount ..... and to enable his family to allow him to learn painting as an amusement, the express...
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British Museum - General history  The history of the British Museum in London. ... In 1757 King George II donated the 'Old Royal Library' of the sovereigns of England and with it the ... In 1823 the gift to the nation by George IV of his father's library (the King's Library) prompted...
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Ashmolean Museum - Wikipedia  The Ashmolean Museum on Beaumont Street, Oxford, England, is the world's first university museum. Its first building was erected in 16781683 to house the cabinet of curiosities ... The museum opened on 24 May 1683, with naturalist Robert Plot as the first keeper. The first building, which became known as the Old...
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Elgin Marbles & the Parthenon - Live Science  Jan 14, 2013 ... Although today the sculptures appear white, originally they were painted in vivid ... A marble frieze from the Parthenon, now displayed in the British Museum, ... Not all the sculptures from the Parthenon are in the British Museum; another large ... The Elgin Marbles once adorned the Parthenon in Athens.
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British Museum - Wikipedia  The British Museum is dedicated to human history, art and culture, and is located in the Bloomsbury area of London. ... Hans Sloane, founder of the British Museum[edit]. Sir ... At that time, Sloane's collection consisted of around 71,000 objects of all .... Under his supervision, the British Museum Library (now part of the British...
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The Parthenon Marbles in the Louvre - Archaeology Travel  While the British Museum tends to get all the attention in debates and ... The portion of the Parthenon frieze now in the Louvre Museum, Paris. ... to various sculptures made from marble that once adorned the Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis. ... These sculptures, once called the 'Elgin Marbles', are at the heart of one of...
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British Museum - Parthenon Sculptures  Since then the sculptures have all been on display to the public in the British ... a world-wide public to re-examine cultural identities and explore the complex...
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British Museum - General history  The history of the British Museum in London. ... lie in the will of the physician, naturalist and collector, Sir Hans Sloane (16601753). ... The founding collections largely consisted of books, manuscripts and natural specimens with ... In the early part of the nineteenth century there were a number of high profile acquisitions.
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Full text of "Familiar allusions: a hand-book of miscellaneous ...  A celebrated rampart of ancient Rome, a few remains of which still exist in the rear ..... A noble mansion, the seat of the Earl of Shrews- bury, in the parish of Alton, ..... The frieze and sculptures upon the arch, which are of the time of Constantine, ...... and represents Aurora scattering flowers before the chariot of the Sun, while...
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British Museum - Parthenon Sculptures  The Parthenon sculptures: an introduction to the Parthenon sculptures in the British Museum, ... The Parthenon in Athens has a long and complex history. Built nearly 2,500 years ago as a temple dedicated to the Greek goddess Athena, ... The sculptures in London, sometimes known as the 'Elgin Marbles', have been on...
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Thomas Bruce, 7th earl of Elgin | British diplomat | Britannica.com  British diplomatist and art collector, famous for his acquisition of the Greek sculptures now known as the  Elgin Marbles . Third son of Charles Bruce, the 5th...
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Full text of "An historical view of literature and art in Great Britain ...  Poetry, pursuing the new direction in which it had been tending, bases itself on a ..... land, while seeking paintings and works of art in Italy, were content to believe the ...... of learning and the recovery of the classical models in literature and art ; while ..... The moralist who might ' shake his head at Dr. Swift,' or at Fielding and...
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Lyceum (Classical) - Wikipedia  The Lyceum (Ancient Greek: , Lykeion) was a temple dedicated to Apollo Lyceus Detail ... Throughout their travels one fifth of Aristotle's works were lost and thus are not a part ... Though he was not a citizen of Athens (he had met Aristotle in the 340s in his homeland ... Platonic Academy  Cynosarges  Theophrastus...
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Case Study - American University  For over 150 years, the marbles of Greece's Parthenon have been situated in ... To date, the Greek government has formally requested the return of the Elgin Marbles ... Lord Elgin then proceeded to remove and ship the Parthenon's famous marble sculptures to England. ... The work of stripping the Parthenon began in 1801.
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Elgin Marbles - Wikipedia  The Elgin Marbles, also known as the Parthenon Marbles, are a collection of Classical Greek ... According to a Turkish local, marble sculptures that fell were burned to ... He sold the Parthenon Marbles to the British government for less than the ... slabs from the parapet frieze of the Temple of Athene Nike; and a number of...