Elgin Marbles

the collection of antique sculptures brought chiefly from the Par the non of Athens to England by the 7th Earl of Elgin in 1814, and afterward purchased by Parliament.for the British Museum at a cost of Tee ae They consist of figures in low and high relief and in the round, representing gods, godde es, and heroes; the combats of the Centaurs and Lap i the; the Panathenaic proce ion, ete. They exhibit Greek sculpture at its highest stage and were partly the work of Phidias.