5558 x 3702 px | 47,1 x 31,3 cm | 18,5 x 12,3 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
14 dicembre 2011
Ubicazione:
Acropolis museum, Athens, Greece, Europe
Altre informazioni:
Inside view of the (new) Acropolis museum. Here you see part of the Parthenon gallery on the 3rd floor of the museum. To be more exact, here you see the part "corresponding" to the southwest side of the Parthenon, where you can see the frieze of the west (left side) and south (right side) walls. Almost all of the blocks (or pannels) of the frieze of the west (left) wall are authentic, while the vast majority of the blocks of the frieze of the south (right) wall, are replicas made of plaster. The authentic ones were stolen by Lord Elgin and are nowadays exhibited in the British museum. The frieze depicts scenes the Great Panathenaia, the greatest festival of the city in honor of the Goddess Athena. The frieze consisted of 115 blocks. It had a total length of 160 meters and was 1.02 meters high. From the entire frieze that survives today, 50 meters are in the Acropolis Museum, 80 meters in the British Museum and one block in the Louvre. Smaller fragments are scattered in the museums of Palermo, the Vatican, Würzburg, Vienna, Munich and Copenhagen.The sculptor was Pheidias, probably the greatest sculptor of ancient Greece.
