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    le Parthénon », Museum Helveticum. Revue suisse pour l'étude de l'antiquité classique, Lausanne, 1978 José Dörig, « Les métopes nord du Parthénon », in...
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    161–163. "Parthenon". Encyclopædia Britannica.[edition needed] Whitley, The Archaeology of Ancient Greece, p. 352. François Queyrel, Le Parthénon. Un monument...
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    scale, from the Parthenon are the Metopes of the Parthenon and the Parthenon Frieze. The accounts of the construction of the Parthenon make it possible...
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    bombardment that ruined the temple. Along with the Metopes of the Parthenon and Pediments of the Parthenon, it forms the bulk of surviving sculpture from...
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    Athena Parthenos (category Parthenon)
    Parthenon: From Antiquity to the Present. Cambridge University Press. Queyrel, François (2020). Le Parthénon, un monument dans l'Histoire. Paris: Bartillat....
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    exemplified in the Parthenon. Pronounced features of both Greek and Roman versions of the Doric order are the alternating triglyphs and metopes. The triglyphs...
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    most important ones, including the Parthenon, the Propylaea, the Erechtheion and the Temple of Athena Nike. The Parthenon and the other buildings were seriously...
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    the west metopes of the Parthenon, a temple on the Athenian Acropolis dedicated to the Greek goddess Athena. The west metopes of the Parthenon depict a...
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    however. See Jean-Pierre De Rycke, Arnould de Vuez, auteur des dessins du Parthénon attribués à Carrey, Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, 131, 2007...
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    pronaos whose central intercolumniation is spaced one triglyph and one metope wider than the others. This central pathway, which leads through to the...
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    marble, topped with marble metopes and triglyphs made from a variety of limestone known as poros stone. Above the metopes and triglyphs is a geison with...
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    restoration of the Acropolis, including efforts to restore the Erechtheion, the Parthenon, the Temple of Athena Nike and the Propylaia. As ephor of the Central...
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  • Actes du colloque de Lyon (7-8 juin 2001), Paris 2004, pp. 143-151. (in French) "Dessins sans dessein : une clé de lecture simple pour les métopes 13-20...
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    and the metopes of the Parthenon, the so-called Elgin Marbles, shipped to London, removing about half of the surviving sculptures of the Parthenon, as well...
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    portal Greece portal Ancient Greece portal Caryatids of Eleusis Metopes of the Parthenon Pergamon Altar Ishtar Gate Winged Victory of Samothrace Despite...
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    the sea on the right. Selene and Helios also appear on the North Metopes of the Parthenon, with Selene this time entering the sea on horseback. From Pausanias...
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    the period. Architects were aware of the large pedimental sculptures and metope reliefs, and copied these expensive elements when funds allowed, but far...
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    Aegina Treasure, Greece, 1700-1500 BC Room 18 – Parthenon statuary from the east pediment and Metopes from the south wall, Athens, Greece, 447-438 BC...
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    and Aristogeiton, Apollo Belvedere, Aphrodite of Cnidus and the metopes of the Parthenon, the museum also displays casts of works by Antoine Bourdelle....
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    became a main source of inspiration for Ancient Greek artists (e.g. metopes on the Parthenon depicting the sack of Troy); this artistic preference for themes...
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    expressionist architecture developed, initiated by the Ronchamp Chapel Notre-Dame-du-Haut (1950–1955) by Le Corbusier. The style was individualistic, but tendencies...
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    columns, the frieze was different based on order. While the Doric one has metopes and triglyphs with guttae, Ionic and Corinthian friezes consist of one...
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    the Parthenon's metopes, obtained a firman, as Elgin did later, to remove antiquities from the Acropolis, and sent to France a part of the Parthenon frieze...
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    Swinburne's poem "Hermaphroditus" in Poems and Ballads is subscribed Au Musée du Louvre, Mars 1863, leaving no doubt that it was the Borghese Hermaphroditus...
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    regard, as Elgin had done on the Parthenon some twenty-five years before. It is perhaps for this reason that the three metopes of the temple of Zeus discovered...
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    of a sequence of two triglyphs and two metopes, but are instead composed of three of triglyphs and three metopes. The columns of the temple are unfluted...
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    Johannes 1971, p. 63 Coulton 1974, p. 7 Adam, Jean-Pierre (1977), "À propos du trilithon de Baalbek: Le transport et la mise en oeuvre des mégalithes", Syria...
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