#temple of parthenon

[gemsofgreece]

Athens by chris_kap.21 on Instagram.

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

Vintage Greek imagery.

[quidfree]

recent travels. no greek diary murder confession involved.

[wgm-beautiful-world]

PARTHENON

[athenepromachos]

The magnificent 42 ft high, 12 ton reconstruction of the Athena Parthenos statue in the Nashville Parthenon. - this is on my bucket list for sure🏛🏛😍😍

[preselimoon]

[greekmythcomix]

My students sometimes struggle with the ‘were Greek temples more impressive than Roman temples?’ style essay q that writes itself, so I made a comparative visual of the four Prescribed Source temples: the Parthenon, the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, the Pantheon and the Temple of Portunus in the Forum Boarium.

I’ve visited all of these and, in my head, the Parthenon is the biggest (even though I know it’s not), but I don’t think I even realised how massive the Pantheon is 🤯

(In my head, the Parthenon is the biggest. That Acropolis approach is reponsible I’m sure)

[timmurleyart]

115 degrees on the rocks today at incredible Valle dei Templi. 🪨🌞🇮🇹

[ophierian-vp]

[esaarinen]

an introduction to temples

@mothercain

[gemsofgreece]

Acropolis from Plaka, Athens by alexandra_petrogiannou on Instagram.

[travelella]

Parthenon, Athens, Greece

Alex Presa

[vriendenboekjes]

akropolis voted lamest museum for not giving a little paper map and having a boring exhibition (so far it has only been object + plaque with text)

[christmaswinter]

New Year's Day Athens 1/1/2024

Photo by Kakavoulas Thanasis

[simplicius-simplicissimus]

Athens - Acropolis

[glitchy-creations]

Parthénos

12” x 4” x 6”

Birch wood, acrylic and wall paint, black ink pen, black alcohol markers, high gloss varnish, wood glue, flat head screws.

I did this piece for my sculpture class and I love how it turned out! We had to do either three small sculptures or two larger ones that played with the principals of art. I wanted to play with colour and repetition (there are definitely other principles at play as well), so I decided on simplifications/abstractions of landmarks!

This one is inspired by the Parthenon in Athens. Luckily I have a friend who’s studying to be an architect so she was able to share a few pdf’s with the general lay out of the temple. I wanted to try to emulate the feeling of the temple being worn down by time with the broken and fallen columns. I also wanted to do something different then just making it all white, so I got some nice paint from Home Depot and based the paint job off black figure pottery!

The columns are attached by drilling into the base and columns and then twisting the columns onto the screws. For strength I put a little bit of wood glue on the screw before hand.