Parthenon frieze, North IV, figs. 9-12
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- Title:
- Parthenon frieze, North IV, figs. 9-12
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Unknown (supervised by Phidias)
- Photographer:
- Alexandridis, Annetta
- Date:
- ca. 1890-1900
447-432 BCE
2009 (image)
- Site:
- Athens, Greece (original)
- Location:
- Warehouse
Athens, Greece (original) - ID Number:
- IMG_5212
- Accession Number:
- probably Sage no. 161
top rim in black marker: North IV 10-12
in red pencil on left side: 15 (or 75?)
236 - File Name:
- IMG_5212.JPG
- 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 - Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from front
- Measurement:
- 99 x 111 x 4.5 (centimeters, height x width x diameter)
- Description:
- This is a cast of North IV, intact but with some earlier repairs, showing parts of three men and four rams (three of which are easily discernible) processing to the viewer's left, and a fourth man facing towards the right. Fig. 9 is represented here and on the original by his lower drapery folds in the bottom left corner of the frieze block. He is overlapped by two damaged (in the original) and overlapping rams. Fig. 10 twists his body to almost frontal, and turns his head into three-quarter position to look behind him (to the viewer's right). He wears a himation over his left shoulder and is overlapped by a third ram, the best-preserved animal on the original stone. The man bends his left arm to apparently rest it on the animal's neck and head. Fig. 11 is foregrounded against this same ram. His head and upper body are largely chipped away in the original. He, too, wears a himation. He rests his right hand on the ram's shoulder, bowing his head slightly to look at the animal. Fig. 12, a marshal whose head and left shoulder and chest are missing (in the original), is depicted in a three-quarter pose turned towards the right edge of the block. He is draped in a himation at his waist and places his weight on his left leg.
- 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), 96
Ian Jenkins, The Parthenon Frieze (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994), 85 - 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.