Parthenon frieze, West IX, figs. 16-17
- Title:
- Parthenon frieze, West IX, figs. 16-17
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Unknown (supervised by Phidias)
- Photographer:
- Mericle, Danielle
- Date:
- ca. 1890-1900
447-432 BCE
- Location:
- Warehouse (previously, Goldwin Smith Hall, Room G55, Cornell University)
- ID Number:
- CCC_0701
- Accession Number:
- 14 incised in top right corner
683 - File Name:
- CCC_0701.tif
- Culture:
- Greek
- Style/Period:
- High Classical
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
- Materials/Techniques:
- plaster cast (sculpture)
marble bas-relief (sculpture technique) (original) - Subject:
- Parthenon (Athens, Greece)
Processions, Religious
Panathenaia
Equestrians - Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from front
- Measurement:
- 27.5 x 37.5 x 3 (centimeters, height x width x diameter)
- Description:
- This is a well-preserved reduced copy of West IX, a weathered and somewhat damaged original, showing two riders, each wearing a short chiton and chlamys, and their horses moving towards the viewer's left. Fig. 16 looks straight ahead with his severely damaged (in the original) head and holds his horses reins in bent arms. His muscular horse also looks ahead while lifting both legs on its right side. Fig. 17 wears a broad-brimmed petasos and bows his head. He, too, bends his arms to hold reins. His horse points its snout groundward and lifts both front legs to gallop.
- Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
- Bibliography:
- www.parthenonfrieze.gr
www.learn.columbia.edu/parthenon/flash/main.htm
P.P. Caproni and brother, Catalogue of Plaster Reproductions from Antique, Medieval and Modern Sculpture (Boston, MA, 1911), 93, 99, 100
Ian Jenkins, The Parthenon Frieze (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994), 108-109 - Related Work:
- ID no. 702 is a full-sized copy of this frieze block.
- Repository:
- Cornell University
- Collecting Program:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The images in the Cornell Collection of Antiquities: Casts are protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are their creators, generally Cornell University Library, Annetta Alexandridis, and Verity Platt. This collection of plaster casts owned by Cornell University was photographed by Cornell University Library, Alexandridis, Platt, and Andreya L. Mihaloew from 2010-2015, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Annetta Alexandridis. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact Annetta Alexandridis and Verity Platt for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.