Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Athena Parthenos
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Athena Parthenos
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Image View:
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Detail, hand and arm (restored), once rested on a shield
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Creator:
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after Phidias (Ancient Greek sculptor, ca. 500 - ca. 432 BCE); Antiochus of Athens (Ancient Greek sculptor, active 1st century BCE)
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Location:
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repository: Museo Nazionale Romano (Rome, Lazio, Italy) inv. 8622
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Location Note:
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Palazzo Altemps; Piazza di Sant'Apollinare, 46
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GPS:
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+41.901172+12.473059
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Date:
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copy, ca. 10-99 BCE (creation); original, ca. 490-430 BCE (other)
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Cultural Context:
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Ancient Greek
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Style Period:
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Classical
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Work Type 1:
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sculpture (visual work)
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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Pentelic marble
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Technique:
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carving (processes)
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Subjects:
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deities; mythology (Classical); Athena (Greek deity)
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Description:
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The goddess Pallas Athena stands holding a spear (missing) in one hand. She wears a helmet, floor-length robe and aegis cloak emblazoned with the head of the Gorgon Medusa. Greek, 1st century BCE copy (signed) by Athenian sculptor Antiochus (Ἀντίοχος) of the famous original from 5th century BCE by Phidias (ca. 490-430 BCE). Some 17th-century restorations; arms, ends of the belt, some folds of the peplos, aegis, tip of the nose. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A3-R-PAL-SAP-A08
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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