Parthenon
Title
Parthenon
Date
ca. 447-432 BCE
Identifier
5485
Creator
Iktinos
Kallikrates
Phidias
Creator2
Bugbee, Gordon (photograph)
Creator Nationality
Greek
Work Type
Single Built Works
Work Location
Greece (nation)
Athens (inhabited place)
Style/Period
Classical
Subject
temples (buildings)
Doric order
columns (architectural elements)
entablatures
Description
Interior view of the Parthenon looking toward columns. Gordon Bugbee Collection. "Doric peripteral temple, 8 x 17 columns. Double cella with pronaos and opisthodomos, both with 6 prostyle columns. The smaller west cella had 4 interior columns. Inside the east cella was a U-shaped colonnade of 9 columns and a pier on each long side, and 3 columns between the 2 piers on the short side ... Toward the west end of the interior colonnade was a statue base for the cult statue of Athena Parthenos with a large shallow rectangle cut to create a reflecting pool in front of it. Bronze doors are postulated for both eastern and western cellas ... The Parthenon was created by Iktinos, Kallikrates and Pheidias. The eastern cella was dedicated to Athena Polias and the western cella was dedicated to Athena Parthenos, "the Virgin," from which the whole building became known as the Parthenon,"--Perseus Digital Library.
Material/Medium
marble (rock)
Measurements
Stylobate: 30.88 x 69.50 meters; height exterior columns: 10.43 meters
Reproduction Type
jpeg
Reproduction Source
38
Copyright Statement
©2013 Lawrence Technological University. These images may be used for personal or educational purposes. They are not available for commercial purposes without the explicit permission of LTU.
ID Number
GPB-GRK2-1230
- Date Added
- August 29, 2013
- Collection
- LTU Digital Images
- Item Type
- VRA Core
- Tags
- Doric, temples
- Citation
- “Parthenon,” LTU Digital Images, accessed May 18, 2024, https://ltuimagecollection.omeka.net/items/show/11787.