Greek Art by John Boardman

Author:John Boardman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2016-02-25T16:00:00+00:00

149 Figures of Athena and a Victory (Nike) from the balustrade round the Temple of Athena Nike on the Acropolis of Athens. About 410 BC. Height 87 cm. (Acr.)

Down in the city of Athens and in the countryside (at Sunium, Rhamnus, Acharnae and Thoricus) there were other buildings of the Periclean programme. In Athens the Hephaisteion (often still called the Theseum) stands still well preserved overlooking the agora (market place), a smaller, less subtle and earlier building than the Parthenon. On it, too, there were friezes within the outer colonnade, but only at each end and not all round, as on the Parthenon. One end showed the now familiar fight of centaurs and Lapiths. The view in our picture [150] is from the angle at which all such carved decoration was seen in the colonnades, as in the Parthenon or at Olympia (for the metopes). It hardly does justice to the proportion and detail of the figures, and the lighting, here facilitated by the absence of the roof, would have been wholly from the light reflected from the marble surfaces around: barely adequate by any standards.

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