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Creation Year
January 1958
Image ID
W.013
Alternate Identifier
B22.013
Subcollection
W: Attica, Crete, Santorini
Abstract
About the design of the Parthenon, Trachtenberg writes: "The colonnade is dense and coporeal, yet its columns soar in their slenderness. The huge entablature … is monumental, yet carried so effortlessly that it seems almost to float. These effects are due, again, to the building's unique proportions: the columns are more slender than any earlier example and, correspondingly, the entablature (see especially the architrave) is unusually narrow, hence visually light" (91). -MA
References
Trachtenberg, Marvin, and Isabelle Hyman. "Architecture, from Prehistory to Post-modernism: The Western Tradition." New York: Prentice-Hall, H.N. Abrams, 1986.
Image Notes
Photograph created August 8th, 1958. Processing date unknown. Formerly catalogued as B22.013. Notes written on the slide or index: Front of the Parthenon.
Image Format
35 mm slide
Geographic Reference
Athens, Greece
Keywords
Stone, Marble, Temple, Temple of Athena, Athena, Entablature, Metope, Triglyph, Columns, Parthenon, Acropolis, Athenian Acropolis, Classical Period, Fifth Century BC
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