In 1687, amid the Great Turkish War, Venice’s forces rained a fusillade of cannonballs on the Ottoman-held Parthenon in Athens ... metopes—28 facing the east and west, and 64 split evenly ...

located high up on top of the Parthenon. One pediment is located on the east side of the building and another on the west. The sculptures on the east pediment tell the tale of the birth of the ...

The Parthenon, unquestionably the ... that represent the "Birth of Athena" on the East and the "Contest Between Athena and Poseidon" on the West. Take a look at some of these elements in detail ...

This has only happened on two previous occasions: the West Pediment figure of Ilissos ... female goddesses originally on the East Pediment of the Parthenon. Rodin owned an 1880s photograph of ...

"Now we need to address certain other areas such as the west pediment," she said. For visitors to the hill-top citadel, the project means a crane, which has been parked in front of the Parthenon ...

One such juxtaposition is between Rodin’s celebrated piece The Kiss (1882) and a sculpture of two reclining figures from the west pediment of the Parthenon. While the latter pair may not be lovers, ...

You can see her on the west pediment of the Parthenon gallery in the British Museum, witnessing the competition between Poseidon and Athena that, according to myth, gave Athens its name. Truncated by ...

The classical marble statues were made between 447BC and 432BC to decorate the temple of Athena (the Parthenon) on the Acropolis in Athens. Head of a horse of Selene from the east pediment of the ...