Material for Workshop #4

The material for this workshop is posted here for educational purposes only. Do not re-distribute.

I. Visual Information

• For a complete tour, stone by stone, of the frieze, click here to consult the website designed by the Ministry of Culture - Acropolis Restoration Service. Look over all of the visual material posted on this website very, very carefully before class.
• Also look at the images on the CD in the Hurwit book.

II. General Information about the Parthenon Frieze

• It is an Ionic element running over porches & around exterior of the naos
• It was probably designed by Pheidias
• It was in position by 438 BCE when we know the roof was completed
  
• 160 m. long (524 feet) and ca. 1 m. high
• 80% of the frieze is extant.
• 114 rectangular blocks of varying lengths. Longest is 4.43 m. long and sits over the E door of the naos. The average length is 1.22 m.
  
• 378 human figures
• 245 animals
  
• It is 0.05 m. deep and is a little deeper at top than at bottom.
• It stands ca. 12 m. from ground level.
  
• The figures are half life-size.
• The background was painted blue; figures were embellished with paint and some bronze details were added.

III. Additional Visual Material

1 . Plan of the Periklean Parthenon	2. View of southwest corner of the Parthenon.	3. Reconstruction drawing of flank colonnade of the Parthenon.
4 . Reconstruction drawing of the pronaos of the Parthenon.	5 . View of frieze blocks still in situ on west flank of the Parthenon.	6 . Frieze blocks still in situ on west flank of the Parthenon
7 .Comparison of figures 1-8 on west flank of the frieze with Carrey's drawing of those figures.	8 . Schematic plan of the frieze.	9. Another schematic plan of the frieze.
10. Artist making preliminary sketch of the frieze.	10. Artists carving the frieze.	12. Model of facade of the Parthenon with the columns of the peristyle removed.