William Sterling

Head of one of the four horses of the moon goddess Selene from the northern end of the East Pediment of the Parthenon in Athens c. 420 BC, currently in the British Museum. One of the most popular of the so-called Elgin Marbles which Lord Elgin rescued from Athens in the early nineteenth century. The East Pediment showed the birth of Athena as she burst out of the head of her father, Zeus, and the reaction of those who were present. Although all the central figures are long gone at either end are depictions of the sun god Helios rising from the sea with his four horse chariot and the moon goddess Selene returning to the sea with hers showing that Athena was born at dawn. Image © Trustees of the British Museum

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November 2022

British Museum Highlights – Around The World In 70 Minutes

November 6, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - 3:10 pm
British Museum London, W1 + Google Map
£14

These tours of the British Museum last 70 minutes and take in up to 12 highlights from the museum's vast collection.  They are at 11:30 am and 2:00 pm on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. The tours cover both main floors of the museum plus some of the side rooms and examine objects from Africa, Europe, Asia, America and the Pacific from many different eras.  We work on a four week rota and mine are on a Sunday.  The dates for…

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December 2022

British Museum Highlights – Around The World In 70 Minutes

December 4, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - 3:10 pm
British Museum London, W1 + Google Map
£14

These tours of the British Museum last 70 minutes and take in up to 12 highlights from the museum's vast collection.  They are at 11:30 am and 2:00 pm on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. The tours cover both main floors of the museum plus some of the side rooms and examine objects from Africa, Europe, Asia, America and the Pacific from many different eras.  We work on a four week rota and mine are on a Sunday.  The dates for…

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The Queen’s House Greenwich

December 6, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Guildhall Library via Zoom, Aldermanbury
London, EC2V 7HH United Kingdom + Google Map
Free

This tour was devised for a course entitled “Gods and Heroes: the influence of the Classical World on art in the C17th & C18th” at the Queen’s House in 2017 as the Queen’s House itself is the first neo-classical building in Britain and many of the objects displayed in it demonstrate the influence of the Classical World. This virtual tour takes advantage of images from when the Queen’s House was furnished to recreate how it looked in the Seventeenth Century…

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