"Detail" from the frieze of the Parthenon, from the Parthenon gallery on the 3rd floor of the Acropolis museum, Athens, Greece.
"Detail" from the frieze of the Parthenon, from the Parthenon gallery on the 3rd floor of the Acropolis museum, Athens, Greece. To be more exact, here you can see 3 blocks (or panels) from the west wall of the Parthenon. 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 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.
Size: 5218px × 3611px
Location: Acropolis museum, Athens, Greece, Europe
Photo credit: © Hercules Milas / Alamy / Afripics
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