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The caryatid porch of the Erechtheion in Athens, Greece.These are now replicas. The originals are in the Acropolis Museum (with one in the British Museum). The caryatid taken by Elgin from the Erechtheion, standing in contrapposto, displayed at the British Museum
The first photograph of the Erechtheion -- image is laterally reversed; the war damage is still evident as well as the opus Elgin in the Maiden Porch. Travellers' accounts of the Erechtheion are relatively scarce before the 18th century, when relations between the Ottoman Empire and Europe began to improve and access to Greece was opened. [79]
Room 19 has Greek material from the later 5th century BC, including sculptures from buildings on the Athenian Akropolis. The Caryatid from the Erechtheion, dating from about 421-406BC, was one of six almost identical figures of women that took the place of columns on the south porch of the building.
The Parthenon, on the Acropolis of Athens, Greece The Caryatid porch of the Erechtheion in Athens. Greek temples (Ancient Greek: ναός, romanized: nāós, lit. 'dwelling', semantically distinct from Latin templum, "temple") were structures built to house deity statues within Greek sanctuaries in ancient Greek religion.
Caryatids of the Erechtheion in Athens, possible models for those of Diogenes for the Pantheon in Rome. Diogenes of Athens (Ancient Greek: Διογένης ὁ Ἀθηναῖος; Latin: Diogenes Atheniensis) was a sculptor who worked at Rome during the reign of Augustus.
Greece. Nicias, the ... The construction of the Porch of the Maidens (the Caryatid Porch) commences at the Erechtheion which is part of the Acropolis in Athens. [1]
The Caryatid Porch of the Erechtheion, Athens, 421–407 BC. The most significant Greek introduction, well before the Classical period, was pedimental sculpture, fitting in the long, low triangle formed by the pediment above the portico of Greek temples.
Caryatid Porch of the Erechtheion, Athens, 421–407 BCE. The Panathenaea (Ancient Greek: Παναθήναια, "all-Athenian festival") was the most important festival for Athens and one of the grandest in the entire ancient Greek world. Except for slaves, all inhabitants of the polis could take part in the festival.