Berlin and its environs; handbook for travellers . lptorhas most admirably succeeded in representing the goddess of Victory inthe act of flying. First Floor. The chief objects here are the two Pediment Group*from the Temple of Zeus, by an unknown sculptor of the beginning ofthe 5th cent. The E. Pediment represents the preparations for therace between Pelops and Oenomaos, which Curtius describes as the centre stands Jupiter, with Pelops and Hippodamia on his right,and King Oenomaos and his wife Sterope on his left; to the right andleft of these appear the two four-horse chariots
Berlin and its environs; handbook for travellers . lptorhas most admirably succeeded in representing the goddess of Victory inthe act of flying. First Floor. The chief objects here are the two Pediment Group*from the Temple of Zeus, by an unknown sculptor of the beginning ofthe 5th cent. The E. Pediment represents the preparations for therace between Pelops and Oenomaos, which Curtius describes as the centre stands Jupiter, with Pelops and Hippodamia on his right,and King Oenomaos and his wife Sterope on his left; to the right andleft of these appear the two four-horse chariots, held by kneeling chariot-eers, beyond which, on the left, are a seated man, a kneeling girl, andfinally the recumbent figure of the river-god Alpheus, and, on the right, abald-headed old man, a boy seated on the ground, and the river-godCladeus. On the W. Pediment the struggle between the Lapithse andthe Centaurs at the marriage of Pirithous is depicted. In the middle is EM_P>ER®& PRE&ERIOK MUSEUM Italian Paintings & Sculp tures. Upper Floor Spree
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