Parthenon frieze, North II, figs. 3-5
- Title:
- Parthenon frieze, North II, figs. 3-5
- 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:
- CCC_0297
- Accession Number:
- probably Sage no. 161
on two frgs. marked with pencil ’North’
297 - File Name:
- CCC_0297.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
Cattle - Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from front
- Measurement:
- 104 x 130 x 4.5 (centimeters, height x width x diameter)
- Description:
- This is a heavily damaged cast of North II, a nearly complete original.Three young men in himatia escort two bulls towards the viewer's left. Fig. 3, in profile, bares his left shoulder and walks with slightly bowed head, looking reverently groundward. He is overlapped by a bull walking calmly forward, whose head and shoulders are contained in North I. Fig. 4, fully draped and in profile, overlaps this bull and also looks to the ground. Fig. 5, in three-quarter pose and with chest bared, also lowers his head slightly and casts his gaze downward. The bull he helps to lead, foregrounded against him, bolts up in apparent distress, lifting booth hooves from the ground and stretching its head upward. Some fragments are missing here: sections of the bodies of both bulls, pieces of the background and most of the hand and drapery of a fourth man (fig. 6) primarily contained in North III, who works to restrain the bolting bull.
- 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
Ian Jenkins, The Parthenon Frieze (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994), 84 - Related Work:
- ID no. 302, a fragment, possibly belongs with this cast. ID no. 422 duplicates this frieze block.
- 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.