The day they blew up the Parthenon

Sources

Sources

• Léon de Laborde, Athènes aux XVe, XVIe et XVIIe siècles, vol. 2 (1854), for Morosini's dispatches, the councils of war and Anna Åkerhjelm's letters; Ferdinand von Pfister, Der Krieg von Morea (1845), on Sobiewolsky's journal; the Report from the Select Committee on the Earl of Elgin's Collection (1816); Parliamentary Debates, vol. 34 (7 June 1816); Edward Daniel Clarke's Travels; Byron's The Curse of Minerva; George Wheler, A Journey into Greece (1682); William St Clair, Who Saved the Parthenon? (2022); Mary Beard, The Parthenon; Kornilia Chatziaslani, Morosini in Athens; Verri and others, "The goddess' new clothes", Antiquity (2023); the Acropolis Restoration Service; Fani Mallouchou-Tufano on the restoration of the Acropolis; The Guardian on the British Museum's 1999 conference; The Art Newspaper and Neos Kosmos on the state of the talks in 2026.

Film

• Gaumont's 1912 colour films of Greece and of Venice; sponge divers from Sixteen Fathoms Deep.

Pictures

• Giacomo Milheau Verneda's watercolour of the explosion; plates by Fanelli, Coronelli, Spon and Wheler, Dodwell, Pomardi and Miller after Williams; the drawings usually credited to Jacques Carrey; views by Lusieri, Gell, Stuart, Rørbye and Lerebours; photographs by Girault de Prangey, Piot and Robertson, and from the Rijksmuseum, the Hallwyl Museum and the Library of Congress (1923); paintings by Klenze, Alma-Tadema, Hess, Zografos for Makriyannis, Archer, Westall, Isaac Israels and Graff; portraits and objects from the Museo Correr; Hamilton's 1802 sketch of the bay at Kythera; Melina Mercouri from the Nationaal Archief.

Credits (via Wikimedia Commons)

• the Acropolis from the museum by Pinterpandai.com (CC BY-SA 3.0); inside the Parthenon in 1969 by jean melis (CC BY 3.0); the Parthenon in 1960 by Zdravko Pečar (CC BY-SA 4.0); the south-east view by Coolcaesar (CC BY 4.0); the restoration by Jean Housen (CC BY-SA 3.0 and 4.0), Johan Jönsson (Julle) (CC BY-SA 4.0), wpopp (CC BY-SA 3.0) and George E. Koronaios (CC BY-SA 4.0); the Parthenon church panel by George E. Koronaios (CC BY-SA 4.0); the Duveen Gallery by Polar from Singapore (CC BY 2.0), Andres Rueda (CC BY 2.0), Jay.M (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Lewis Clarke (CC BY-SA 2.0); the frieze and pediment in London by Txllxt TxllxT (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Dominic's pics (CC BY 2.0); the frieze and casts in Athens by Sharon Mollerus (CC BY 2.0); the galley model by Armin Kleiner (CC BY-SA 4.0); the Piraeus Lion by Didier Descouens (CC BY-SA 4.0); coffee by DeaPeaJay (CC BY-SA 2.0); musket balls by Adam Daubney, Portable Antiquities Scheme (CC BY-SA 4.0).