"The Parthenon received still more attention in the first years of the nineteenth century, when Lord Elgin completed his negotiations the Ottoman regime to remove much of the sculptural program. [...] In the decades that followed (1821-9), the Greeks staged their successful revolution that gained them independence from Ottoman rule. There ensued what has been called the "rediscovery of Greece." The establishment of a new government, led by the Bavarian king Otto, was accompanied by an influx of artists and travelers from the West, with a corresponding increase in the number of visual representations of the antiquities."
— Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, "Well-Recorded Worth": Photographs of the Parthenon
