Poseidon, Apollo, and Artemis

Dateca. 1858

MediumAlbumen print [from a paper negative?]

Credit LineGift of William Knight Zewadski

Object number2002.011.021

Label TextThe Parthenon's continuous frieze running along the outer wall of the inner building is one of its Ionic features. The frieze may represent an idealized version of the Panathenaic procession when the newly woven peplos, the garment that adorned the statue of Athena Polias in the Erechtheion, was carried up to the Acropolis. These photographs show four of the blocks that remain in Athens and are now housed in the Acropolis Museum. Towards the beginning of the procession at the western end, a cavalcade of galloping horsemen is depicted. At the eastern end, as the procession approaches its climax, young men lead heifers to be sacrificed. One of these victims bucks in alarm. On the eastern frieze, above the entrance to the temple, the seated gods witness the presentation of the peplos.
Exhibition HistoryAn Eye for Antiquity: Photographs from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. William Knight Zewadski, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida, October 25 - December 13, 1991
The Eye of Greece: Athens in Nineteenth-Century Photographs, Michael C. Carlos Museum, September 25 - November 24, 2004
Published ReferencesMCCM Newsletter, September - November 2002.

ProvenanceEx coll. William Knight Zewadski, United States.

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