Made between 447BC and 432BC they consist of: a frieze which shows the procession of the Panathenaic festival (the commemoration of the birthday of the goddess Athena); a series of …

The pediments and metopes (square spaces between triglyphs in a Doric frieze) illustrate episodes from Greek myth, while the frieze represents the people of contemporary Athens in …

2018年1月11日 · The Parthenon sculptures in the British Museum are 247 feet (around 75 metres) of the original 524 feet (around 160 metres) of frieze, 15 of the 92 metopes, 17 figures …

Cavalry from the Parthenon Frieze, West II, 2–3, British Museum. The Parthenon frieze is the high-relief Pentelic marble sculpture created to adorn the upper part of the Parthenon's naos. …

2020年8月2日 · Classical Greek Mounted Horsemen on Parthenon Frieze, designed by Phidias, 447-32 BC, via The British Museum, London The frieze is actually a continuous tableau of …

When I went to the British Museum, the exhibit I was most excited to see was the Parthenon frieze, a series of different marble sculptures depicting people, gods, and animals. The frieze …

The British Museum is host to a plethora of Greek art and artifacts. Highlights include the sculptures of the Parthenon, the Mausoleum of Halikarnassos, and the Temple of Apollo …

Created by Phidias Periclean, Athens's greatest sculptor, the Parthenon frieze contain images of processions of men, women and horses through the streets of Athens, battling horsemen and …

It is often noted that the Parthenon frieze breaks ground in depicting a historical rather than a mythological event. Yet the frieze includes divinities and probably heroes, and though …

2024年6月18日 · Around half of the surviving Parthenon sculptures are now housed in the British Museum, including 15 of the metopes depicting the battle of the Lapiths and the Centaurs, 75 …