Parthenon

Right One of four Portland stone sculptures on the theme of the seasons on the façade of 42 Kingsway, built in 1906 as the offices of The Garden magazine.

Scanning the Elgin Marbles

The story was seen as a further blow to the argument that the Marbles must stay in London – replicas ‘accurate to a millimetre’ could be displayed at the British Museum and few visitors would know the difference.

OPPOSITE William Pars, Ruins of the temple of Apollo at Didyma, from the north east¸ October 1764. Pen and grey and black ink, watercolour, with gum arabic and some body colour. Size: 299 x

The Romance of Ruins: curator Louise Stewart of Sir John Soane’s Museum discusses the art of the 1764 Ionian expedition

In a recent issue of Minerva magazine, Louise Stewart, Curator of Exhibitions at Sir John Soane’s Museum in London, discussed the young artist William Pars’ poetic images of the ruins he encountered on an expedition to Ionia (in modern-day Turkey)…

In search of ancient Ionia

William Pars’s poetic images of the ruins he encountered on an expedition to Ionia and Athens helped shape the taste for Greek styles in 18th-century Britain. Louise Stewart takes us on a journey to Ionia through the eyes of this young artist.

Parthenon, Athens, 1907

Boissonnas headed to Athens and worked to photograph the monuments of the Acropolis, a subject he returned to several times.