Detail from the western frieze of the Parthenon. British Museum, London Photograph by Josse/Scala, Florence In 1687, during a war fought between Venice and the Ottomans, the great monument was ...

The Parthenon’s base was 23,028 square feet (about half the size of a football field) and its 46 outer columns were some 34 feet high. A 525-foot frieze wrapped around the top of the exterior wa ...

Q: The sculptures within the Parthenon also seem to clearly pay tribute to the human form. Hurwit: Yes, and to the Athenians in particular. I think this is best expressed in the frieze that ...

The activities and lesson plans developed for this Web site comprise a multidisciplinary unit that uses television, the Internet, and other resources as learning tools to explore and understand ...

When the Parthenon was completed in 432 B.C.E., it epitomized the height of Greek architecture—its colonnade, masonry, and magnificent frieze overseen by Phidias harmonizing in a grand tribute ...

each 55 x 225 mm (2 1/4 x 8 3/4 ins) mount (17.5 x 34.5 cm) ...

An exhibit that will most likely be missing is the so-called Elgin Marbles, sculptural works that include 247 feet of the original Parthenon frieze. Lord Elgin, the British ambassador to ...

In March 2023, the Vatican Museums returned three pieces of the Parthenon's frieze, metopes decorative band and pediments. The heads of a youth, a bearded man and a horse were reunited with the ...

These include about half of the surviving fragments of a 160-meter-long (520-foot) frieze from the Parthenon Temple, which dates back around 2,500 years. They currently sit in the collection of ...

Carlsruhe and Copenhagen have pieces of Parthenon metope slabs from the Doric frieze of the temple. Dr. Jan Six, the son of the Amsterdam medalist, and a descendant of Rembrandt's familiar ...

For decades, Greek authorities have been arguing for the permanent return of the so-called Parthenon Sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles. These include about half of the surviving fragments of ...