Eserleri
- Art in the Kingdom of Benin took many forms, of which bronze and brass reliefs and the heads of kings and queen mothers are the best known.
- This forms part of the context around the Benin Bronzes. They were taken off as colonial loot, to be displayed in museums in different corners of the planet.
- The Benin Bronzes come from Benin City in present day Nigeria, previously the historic capital of the Kingdom of Benin.
- The road is still long, she said, adding that ownership of the Benin bronzes is just the beginning of a process that still has many hurdles, for instance in matters...
- Ancient and contemporary benin bronze – differences and similarities: the content, context and the journey so far.
- After the British victory, the troops destroyed the town and took away nearly 2,000 plaques and sculptures, known thereafter as the ‘Benin Bronzes’.
- Germany is in the process of returning hundreds of Benin Bronze artefacts to Nigeria, where a new museum is being built in Benin City to house artefacts.
- The Benin Bronzes come from Benin City, the historic capital of the Kingdom of Benin, a major city-state in West Africa from the medieval period.
- The original bronzes were looted by British settlers in the late 19th century from what was then the Kingdom of Benin (Southern part of present-day Nigeria).
- Two Benin bronzes were returned on Saturday to a traditional palace in Nigeria, more than a century after they were pillaged by British troops...
- Visitors sit before the contentious Benin plaques exhibit (known as the Benin Bronzes) at the British Museum in London [File: David Cliff/SOPA Images/LightRocket...
- Every new Oba orders his artistic guilds to make sculptures for the deceased Oba and mother queen. What’s the significance of the Bronzes of Benin?
