Tag: British Museum

The Efebo Westmacott is a sculpture of Polykleitos, dated to 450.

The Crucifixion for Vittoria Colonna is a chalk drawing on paper (37×27 cm), attributed to Michelangelo Buonarroti, dated to about 1545 and preserved in the British Museum in London.

The Epiphany is a preparatory cartoon chalk on paper (232×165 cm) by Michelangelo Buonarroti, dating from about 1550 to 1553 and in the British Museum in London.

The Fall of Phaeton is a charcoal drawing on paper (31,2×21,5 cm) by Michelangelo Buonarroti, dating from about 1533 and preserved in the British Museum in London.

The profile of captain old (also called The Leader) is a silverpoint drawing on prepared paper (28,5×20,7 cm) by Leonardo da Vinci, dated to about 1475 and preserved in the British Museum in London.

The Elgin Marbles, also known as the Elgin Marbles, are a collection of Greek sculptures of the classical age marble (mostly the work of Phidias and his assistants), inscriptions and architectural elements that were originally part of the Parthenon and other buildings placed on the Acropolis of Athens.

The Bath of men is a woodcut by Albrecht Durer, dating from around 1496 and conserved, among the best existing copies, in the British Museum in London.

The pediments of the Parthenon are two groups of sculpture that decorated the temple of Athena Parthenos on the Acropolis of Athens.