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The statue of Athena Parthenos [N 1] (Ancient Greek: Παρθένος Ἀθηνᾶ, lit. 'Athena the Virgin') was a monumental chryselephantine sculpture of the goddess Athena . Attributed to Phidias and dated to the mid-fifth century BCE, it was an offering from the city of Athens to Athena, its tutelary deity .
In 1982, Alan LeQuire was commissioned to create the statue of Athena Parthenos [7] as a reconstruction, to scholarly standards, of the long-lost original: she is cuirassed and helmeted, carries a shield on her left arm, a 6-foot-high (1.8 m) statue of Nike (Victory) in her right palm, and stands 42 feet (13 m) high, gilt (as of 2002) [7] with ...
The only piece of sculpture from the Parthenon known to be from the hand of Phidias [97] was the statue of Athena housed in the naos. This massive chryselephantine sculpture is now lost and known only from copies, vase painting, gems, literary descriptions, and coins. [98]
The Athena Promachos (Ἀθηνᾶ Πρόμαχος, "Athena who fights in the front line") was a colossal bronze statue of Athena sculpted by Pheidias, which stood between the Propylaea [1] and the Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens. Athena was the tutelary deity of Athens and the goddess of wisdom and
The Varvakeion Athena is a Roman-era statue of Athena Parthenos now part of the collection of the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. It is generally considered to be the most faithful reproduction of the chryselephantine statue made by Phidias and his assistants, which once stood in the Parthenon. [1] It is dated to 200–250 AD. [2]
The most famous classical depiction of Athena was the Athena Parthenos, a now-lost 11.5 m (38 ft) [215] gold and ivory statue of her in the Parthenon created by the Athenian sculptor Phidias. [ 213 ] [ 211 ] Copies reveal that this statue depicted Athena holding her shield in her left hand with Nike , the winged goddess of victory, standing in ...
The attention to detail at the back of the statue and her slight stoop suggest a possibility that she was designed to be placed on a central pedestal rather than against a wall. [6] The Piraeus Athena has been determined to be an original, and currently the only existent statue thought to be based on it is the Athena Mattei currently in the ...
The Athena of Velletri or Velletri Pallas is a type of classical marble statue of Athena, ... All statues of this type are 1st century Roman copies of a lost Greek ...