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The Elgin Marbles: Art, Empire, and the Yearning for Return
In the early nineteenth century, Thomas Bruce, the 7th Earl of Elgin, removed roughly half of the surviving sculptural decoration from the Parthenon in Athens and shipped it to Britain. Today, those sculptures sit in the British Museum. Greece has been asking for them back for over forty years. The sculptures themselves are extraordinary. Carved…
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Psychology of Fashion
Every single person takes a different approach toward fashion. For some, it’s merely a piece of fabric they throw on in the morning; for others, it is their biggest source of expression. The way in which a person approaches fashion and expression through clothing indicates a lot about a person’s psyche. How does fashion contribute…
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Bronze and the Divine: Casting the Gods of Ancient Greece
For the ancient Greeks, bronze was the substance of the divine. Stone was permanent and earthly. But bronze caught light, gleamed like skin in sunlight, and carried a warmth that made the gods it depicted seem almost alive. The tragedy is that almost none of it survives. Of the thousands of large-scale bronze sculptures produced…
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