• (1975). The Parthenon Frieze, Oxford University Press. Roccos, L.J. The Kanephoros and her Festival Mantle in Greek Art, AJA 99, p. 641–66.
  • Some of these original frieze scenes no longer survive, and we must rely on old artistic renderings for information about the Parthenon frieze.
  • The frieze of the Parthenon forms a continuous band with scenes in relief that encircles the upper part of the cella, the main temple, within the outer colonnade.
  • The Parthenon Frieze By Ian Jenkins. opposite directions until they converge over the door of the cella at the east end of the parthenon.
  • Parts of the Parthenon frieze from the Acropolis have been in the possession of the British Museum for more than 200 years.
  • It was 1868, and to the modern viewer the painting looks inoffensive enough. Phidias, the bearded sculptor, stands in front of the Parthenon Frieze...
  • More than 50% of the sculptures on the Parthenon’s frieze that were affixed to the roof also fell to the ground, along with the roof’s demise and the collapse of the...
  • Home/ Collections / Archaic Period (700-480 BC) .../ Ancient Greek Painting and Sculpture/ Cavalry from the Parthenon Frieze.
  • The single largest element of the procession consisted of the citizen body on foot, yet this aspect is entirely absent on the Parthenon frieze.
  • The placement of a frieze on the Parthenon, which was a Doric style temple, is the only exception in ancient Greek architecture.