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    • Erechtheion

    • Erechtheion

    • Sculpture, Greek (ancient) ;Architecture, Greek (ancient) ;Sculpture, Classical ;Sculpture, 5th Century BCE ;Religious buildings ;Temples ;Friezes (entablature components) ;Figures, female

    • North Porch Frieze. High relief figures from frieze. View as installed in the New Acropolis Museum.
    • Sculpture (Art and Art History Department Images)
    • Erechtheion

    • Erechtheion

    • Sculpture, Greek (ancient) ;Architecture, Greek (ancient) ;Sculpture, Classical ;Sculpture, 5th Century BCE ;Religious buildings ;Temples ;Friezes (entablature components) ;Figures, female

    • North Porch Frieze. High relief figures from frieze. View as installed in the New Acropolis Museum.
    • Sculpture (Art and Art History Department Images)
    • Arc de Triomphe

    • Arc de Triomphe

    • Architecture, French ;Sculpture, French ;Architecture, 19th Century ;Monuments ;Triumphal arches (memorial arches) ;Entablatures ; Friezes (entablature components) ;Spandrels (wall components) ;Figures, female ;Nudes, female ;Figures, winged

    • Detail at top of arch with names of victorious battles and spandrel figures. [Detail view: entablature, cornice, figural frieze, two relief plaques, and Victory figures in spandrels.]
    • Architecture (Art and Art History Department images)
    • Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]

    • Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]

    • There were possibly additional statues between the columns. This theory is supported by 30-odd sculptures of women among the finds; they may have personified the cities of the Pergamene kingdom

    • One of the unidentified statues of women, perhaps personifications of the cities of the Pergamene (Attalid) kingdom; found in the altar area
    • Archivision
    • Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]

    • Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]

    • Eos, goddess of the dawn, rides sidesaddle into battle. She pulls back her horse and is armed with a torch which she thrusts forward. She is followed by Helios, who rises up from the ocean with his quadriga, the horse attacking a Giant

    • Gigantomachy, South frieze; Eos, goddess of the dawn, rides sidesaddle, followed by a standing Giant being attacked by the horse of Helios
    • Archivision
    • Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]

    • Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]

    • The next three pairs of fighters are associated with Ares, the god of war. It is uncertain who they depict. First, a god is about to hurl a tree trunk; in the middle a winged goddess thrusts her sword into an opponent, and third, a god fights a...

    • Gigantomachy, North frieze; fighter associated with Ares and fallen Giant
    • Archivision
    • Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]

    • Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]

    • The next group of fighters shows a 'lion goddess' said to be Ceto. This group does not immediately follow the Moirai; there is a gap which probably held another pair of fighters. They may have been Ceto's children, the Graeae. Ceto was the mother...

    • Gigantomachy, North frieze; the lion goddess, Ceto, detail of her drapery
    • Archivision
    • Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]

    • Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]

    • Zeus is physically especially present and agile. He fights by hurling lightning bolts, sending rain and massed clouds not only against two young Giants but also against their leader, Porphyrion

    • Gigantomachy, East frieze; Zeus battling Giants, detail, Zeus
    • Archivision
    • Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]

    • Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]

    • Athena, the city goddess of Pergamon, breaks the Giant Alkyoneus' contact to the earth, from which the mother of the Giants, Gaia, emerges. Alkyoneus was immortal only as long as he touched the ground, where the power of his mother could flow...

    • Gigantomachy, East frieze; Athena and Nike fight Alkyoneus (left), Gaia rises up from the ground (right), raking view from below
    • Archivision
    • Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]

    • Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]

    • On the left the presentation of the east frieze begins with the three-faceted goddess Hecate. She fights in her three incarnations with a torch, a sword and a lance against the giant Klytios

    • Gigantomachy, East frieze; Hecate fights against Klytios (left)
    • Archivision
    • Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]

    • Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]

    • The next pair of fighters also shows an especially important battle scene. Athena, the city goddess of Pergamon, breaks the Giant Alkyoneus' contact to the earth, from which the mother of the Giants, Gaia, emerges

    • Gigantomachy, East frieze; Athena and Nike fight Alkyoneus (left), Gaia rises up from the ground (right)
    • Archivision
    • Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]

    • Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]

    • There were possibly additional statues between the columns. This theory is supported by 30-odd sculptures of women among the finds; they may have personified the cities of the Pergamene kingdom

    • One of the unidentified statues of women, perhaps personifications of the cities of the Pergamene (Attalid) kingdom
    • Archivision
    • Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]

    • Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]

    • The entire South frieze is displayed in a continuous band on the museum wall, then also at the point were it would have been seen on the reconstructed West facade superstructure

    • Gigantomachy, South frieze; as installed on reconstruction of west facade superstructure, starting at the point of Rhea/Cybele riding the lion and ending with Helios
    • Archivision
    • Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]

    • Great Altar at Pergamon [reconstruction]

    • This goddess was long considered to be Nyx; it is now assumed that it is one of the Erinyes, goddesses of revenge. She is holding a vessel wrapped in snakes, ready to hurl it

    • Gigantomachy, North frieze; Nyx or an Erinyes, detail of her drapery
    • Archivision

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