Frank Francis
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Sir Frank Chalton Francis was an English academic librarian and curator. Almost all his working life was at the British Museum, first as an Assistant Keeper in the Department of Printed Books, and lat
Francis in 1968
Elgin Marbles
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The Elgin Marbles are a collection of Ancient Greek sculptures from the Parthenon and other structures from the Acropolis of Athens, removed from Ottoman Greece in the early 19th century and shipped t
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…galleries damaged by German bombing during the Second World War, and he was responsible for opening new ones, including the Duveen gallery, where the Elgin Marbles were housed from in 1962. It was under his directorship that "schoolboys knocked a leg off one of the Elgin Marbles", an embarrassing event kept secret…
Elgin marbles jan 2024
Western frieze, II, 2
Parthenon Selene Horse
Metope from the Elgin Marbles depicting a Centaur and a Lapith fighting