Parthenon Marble Frieze
The rest is known only from the drawings made.
Parthenon marble frieze. They include sculptural elements that made up the east and west pediments a frieze that ran around the inner chamber of the parthenon the cella and a series of panels or. Detail from the western frieze of the parthenon. Originally covering about 524 feet 160 meters about half of it is now part of the elgin marbles in london. Dedicated to the greek goddess.
A broad decorated. It was sculpted about 440 bc and of the 160 m 524 ft of the original frieze about 80 percent survive today. For more information on the parthenon frieze please press here. As such they represent more than half of what now.
The parthenon marbles acquired by elgin include some 21 figures from the statuary from the east and west pediments 15 of an original 92 metope panels depicting battles between the lapiths and the centaurs as well as 75 metres of the parthenon frieze which decorated the horizontal course set above the interior architrave of the temple. Parthenon frieze the parthenon frieze is the high relief marble sculpture created to adorn the upper part of the parthenon s inner chamber of the temple. Poseidon apollo and artemis poseidon apollo and artemis marble relief portion of the east section of the parthenon frieze 448 429 bce. The parthenon is a resplendent marble temple built between 447 and 432 b c.
The irish painter edward dodwell reported that huge quantities of marble from the parthenon had been broken up in order to build cabins for a. The parthenon frieze is the high relief pentelic marble sculpture created to adorn the upper part of the parthenon s naos it was sculpted between c. In the new acropolis museum athens. The parthenon marbles is a collective term that has been applied to various sculptures made from marble that once adorned the parthenon on the athenian acropolis.
During the height of the ancient greek empire. From the entire frieze that survives today 50 meters are in the acropolis museum 80 meters in the british museum one block in the louvre whilst other fragments are scattered in the museums of palermo the vatican würzburg vienna munich and copenhagen. The parthenon frieze which runs on a continuous line around the exterior wall of the cella is 1 meter high and 160 meters long the sculptures are executed in low relief and depict the people of athens in two processions that begin at the southwest corner and parade in opposite directions until they converge over the door of the cella at the east end of the parthenon.