Metopes of the Parthenon
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title:
Metopes of the Parthenon
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The metopes of the Parthenon are the surviving set of what were originally 92 square carved plaques of Pentelic marble originally located above the columns of the Parthenon peristyle on the Acropolis of Athens. If they were made by several artists, the master builder was certainly Phidias. They were carved between 447 or 446 BC. or at the latest 438 BC, with 442 BC as the probable date of completion. Most of them are very damaged. Typically, they represent two characters per metope either in act
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Marble sculpture from the Acropolis of Athens
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metopes_of_the_Parthenon
date created:
2006-02-12T21:02:12Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T15:13:39Z
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