Altar of Zeus
Title
Altar of Zeus
Date
2nd century BCE
Identifier
1884
Work Type
Single Built Works
Work Location
Turkey (nation)
Bergama (inhabited place)
Style/Period
Hellenistic
Subject
reliefs (sculptures)
altars
Zeus (Greek deity)
Description
Detail view of section of sculptural reliefs from the Altar of Zeus, originally at Pergamon, Turkey now restored at the Pergamonmuseum in Berlin. "The altar proper was on an elevated platform and framed by an Ionic stoa-like colonnade with projecting wings on either side of a broad central staircase. All along the altar platform was a sculpted frieze almost 400 feet long, populated by about one hundred larger-than-life figures. The subject is the battle of Zeus and the gods against the giants. It is the most extensive representation Greek artists ever attempted of that epic conflict for control of the world,"--Gardner's Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective, Volume 1, by Fred Kleiner.
Reproduction Type
jpeg
Copyright Statement
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ID Number
A1GRPER2-5175BE32A3
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