Perikles Athens

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Perikles Athens
Parthenon 447-38 IKTINOS, architect KALLIKRATE
S, builder PHEIDIAS Athena Parthenos
(438) Metopes 447-42 Frieze 442-438 Pediments
437-432
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Parthenon
IKTINOS KALLIKRATES 447-38Vitruvius wrote of
optical refinements
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Athena Lemnia Model from Royal Ontario Museum
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Athena Lemnia
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Athena Varvakeion
Roman copy 2nd century ce Ht 3 ft 5 ½ in, Athens
NAM
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Strangford Shield
Width 18 in. Supposed portraits of Pheidias and
Perikles British Museum
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Metopes
447-42 92 in all14 ends 32 sides Ht 46 E
Gigantomachy W Amazonamachy N Sack of Troy S
Lapiths Centaurs
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Interior Frieze
437-438 524 ft long West to East
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Panthenaic Procession
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Elgin MarblesBritish Museum
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Parthenon GalleriesBritish Museum
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J. Stephanoff. The Virtuoso 1833
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Lord Elgin British ambassador to the Ottoman
Empire from 1799-1803 1801 to 1812 Elgins agents
removed about half surviving sculptures Purchased
by British Government in 1816 after public debate
in Parliament.
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New Acropolis Museum
Competition won by Bernard Tschumi (2003)Above
model Below construction
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East frieze women and elders
Louvre. Ht 3 ft 6 in
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East frieze women and elders
Louvre. Ht 3 ft 6 in
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The Peplos Incident
PAUSANIAS DOES NOT MENTION FRIEZE! A new peplos
for statue? The old peplos into
storage? Sacrifice of the youngest daughter of
King Erechtheus?
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West Pediment
437-432Pheidias ? Contest of Athena and
Poseidon Sketches by Jacques Carrey, 1574
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East Pediment
437-432 bce Birth of Athena Gods witnessing this
event Horses drawing chariots of Sun (left) and
Moon (right)
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Birth of Athena
Madrid Puteal Roman copy of pediment?
Attic b.f. vase, ca. 550
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Amazon Contest
Pliny XXXIV, 53 KresilasPolycleitosPheidias
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Polykleitos of Argos
Flourished 450-430 Chryselephantine Hera for
Argos Said to have invented contrapposto
a boy of manly form bearing a lance, called the
Canon by artists, who drew from it the rudiments
of art as from a law. Pliny, Nat Hist, xxxiv,55
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Doryphoros
ca. 450-40 B.C. from Pompeiitotal front
centermarble212 cm. highNaples, Museo
Archaeologico
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Sculptors Competition
The most highly praised artists have also entered
into competition with one another (although they
belonged to different age groups) since all made
statues of Amazons and, when these were
dedicated in the temple of Artemis at Ephesos, it
was resolved that the most praiseworthy of them
was to be selected by the judgment of the artists
themselves, who were present. Then it became
apparent that there was one which each artist
judged to be second to his own and it became the
winner. This was the one by Polykleitos next to
it came the one by Pheidias, third was that of
Kresilas. Pliny N.H. XXXIV, 53
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NY Metropolitan
Mattei Collection
Capitoline