"W.013 Acropolis - Parthenon" by Denis Baly
 

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Creator

Denis Baly

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

Acropolis

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