LONDON— The British Museum has loaned one of the Parthenon Marbles to Russia’s Hermitage Museum — the first time in 200 years that any of the ancient sculptures, whose return has been strongly demanded by Greece, has left Britain.
The marble sculpture of the river god Ilissos —a reclining male figure from the west pediment of the Parthenon — will be part of a major exhibition on Greek art being held as the Hermitage marks its 250th anniversary. The museum in St. Petersburg is Russia’s most renowned.
The British Museum’s trustees described the sculpture as a “stone ambassador of the Greek golden …read more
Source: The Epoch Times
