In 1687, amid the Great Turkish War, Venice’s forces rained a fusillade of cannonballs on the Ottoman-held Parthenon in Athens ... metopes—28 facing the east and west, and 64 split evenly ...

located high up on top of the Parthenon. One pediment is located on the east side of the building and another on the west. The sculptures on the east pediment tell the tale of the birth of the ...

The Parthenon, unquestionably the ... that represent the "Birth of Athena" on the East and the "Contest Between Athena and Poseidon" on the West. Take a look at some of these elements in detail ...

[10] Save this picture! The west pediment of the reconstruction of the Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee depicts Athena and Poseidon fighting for the rule of Attica while the other gods look on.

"Now we need to address certain other areas such as the west pediment," she said. For visitors to the hill-top citadel, the project means a crane, which has been parked in front of the Parthenon ...

Developed by ancient Greeks as the decorative end to a gable roof, the pediment is widely used in classical, neoclassical, baroque and revival styles of architecture. The Parthenon, 432 B.C., is ...

The classical marble statues were made between 447BC and 432BC to decorate the temple of Athena (the Parthenon) on the Acropolis in Athens. Head of a horse of Selene from the east pediment of the ...

Without surrounding buildings for scale, it can be hard to understand the monumental proportions, until you enter the Naos, the east ... original Parthenon marbles that embellish its pediment ...

The Horniman Museum in south-east London signed over ownership ... Trustees of the British Museum Marble statue from the West pediment of the Parthenon at the British Museum The British Museum ...