Parthenon metope
- Title
- Parthenon metope
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- The Parthenon Sculptures Sculpture 316
- Creator
- Pheidias
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- Phidias (Greek designer, ca. 490-430 BCE)
- Description
- Marble metope from the Parthenon (South metope XXVII). This metope is from the eastern half of the south side of the temple. The South metopes in the British Museum show the battle between Centaurs and Lapiths at the marriage-feast of Peirithoos. A young Lapith, on the left, holds a Centaur’s head from behind with his left hand, while preparing to deliver a blow with the other. The Centaur, wounded in the back, rears up and presses his right hand against the wound. A chlamys falls over both Lapith’s arms, hanging behind his back. Both heads, the Lapith’s foreleg and right forearm, and the Centaurs left arm and right leg are missing. Parts of the frame in the top left hand corner are restored. --The British Museum Pryce, F N; Smith, A H, Catalogue of Greek Sculpture in the British Museum, I-III, London, BMP, 1892; Smith, A, A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, London, William Clowes and Sons, 1892; Choremi-Spetsieri, Alkistis, The Sculptures of the Parthenon: Acropolis, British Museum, Louvre, Athens, Ephesus Publishing, 2004; Brommer, Frank, Die Metopen des Parthenon, Mainz, Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1967; Smith, A, The sculptures of the Parthenon, London, William Clowes and Sons, 1910; Berger, Ernst, Der Parthenon in Basel; Dokumentation zu den Metopen, Mainz, Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1986
- View
- Front
- Coverage
- Athens, Periféreia Protevoúsis, Greece (creation) Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, Periféreia Protevoúsis, Greece (site)
- Temporal
- 447-438 BCE
- Subject
- Kouroi--Lycippus Parthenon Phidias Sculpture I
- Style Period
- Classical
- Work Type
- metopes
- Date
- -0447/-0438
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_03384
- Item Locator
- Box 8, Section 22-23
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- University of Oregon
- Local Collection Name
- Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- Thickness: 137 cm
- Material
- marble
- Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Primary Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Institution
- University of Oregon
- Id Current Repository
- 1816,0610.11
