Parthenon frieze, West III, figs. 4-6
- Title:
- Parthenon frieze, West III, figs. 4-6
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Unknown (supervised by Phidias)
- Photographer:
- Mericle, Danielle
- Date:
- ca. 1890-1900
447-432 BCE
- Site:
- Athens, Greece (original)
- Location:
- Goldwin Smith Hall (Room 120), Cornell University
Athens, Greece (original) - ID Number:
- CCC_0711
- Accession Number:
- probably Sage no. 161
705 - File Name:
- CCC_0711.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:
- 101 x 144 x 4.5 (centimeters, height x width x diameter)
- Description:
- This is a well-preserved cast of West III, a relatively well-preserved original, depicting three male figures and a horse. Fig. 4 stands in a frontal pose with his weight on his left leg. He turns his damaged (in the original) head into a three-quarter view to look over his right shoulder, towards the viewer's left. He is nude except for the chlamys fastened around his neck with a round brooch and a petasos slung around his neck. He reaches up towards the muzzle of his horse, crossing his right arm over his chest. The horse, facing to the left and lifting its head slightly upward, is the central element of the frieze block. On its right flank stands fig. 5, a bearded man draped in a himation from his midsection down. He, too, is shown frontally, but he turns his head in profile facing to the right. Fig. 6, a boy, is shown nude and in profile facing left. He looks up at fig. 5 and stands crossing his right leg over his left.
- 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
Ian Jenkins, The Parthenon Frieze (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994), 105 - Repository:
- Cornell University (current)
Athens, Acropolis Museum (original) - 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.