The Parthenon has long been regarded as one of the great architectural and artistic products of the High Classical Period.
A prominent construction
Yet, scholars have struggled to reach a consensus interpretation for the meaning of the Parthenon frieze. I do not know what is "frieze". I guess some piece of the Parthenon. Some architrave. But it does not matter. here the key is that the scholars do not understand still today something of important
The study of this particular sculptural element of the Parthenon, a continuous band of sculpture that ran round the top of the building’s temple-chamber, has proven quite difficult.Ok. Now we know what they do not grasp
Today only 423 feet of the original 524 survive, and of those, 247 feet are housed in the British Museum in London. Just details. maybe important.
Another large section is now in the Acropolis Museum in Athens, and still other pieces reside in exhibits throughout Europe, making it a difficult task to discuss, let alone experience the unified whole the designers wished the audience to witness—a key element in deciphering any work of art.becuase gran part of the ariginal architrave is scattered around the globe, it is more difficult to unify a reason behind this important piece of the Parthenon
Denied the opportunity to study the frieze as it existed in antiquity, scholars are faced with the burden of reconstructing the visual experience of the monument before they can even begin interpreting it.Scientists struggle to understand the frieze because they are not able to even figure out the burden
To do so, an inventory is taken of characters and figure-types represented on the frieze and their arrangement. Details. They try to see what figures were on it
Then this inventory is compared to historical precedents and placed in its contemporary context in the hopes of using prior examples to decipher its meaning.Then they do a sort of comparison or reverse engineering to understand the meaning of the figures on the frieze
Considering the various fragments of the Parthenon frieze as a whole and comparing it to other Greek artworks, two aspects of the arrangement immediately strike the informed viewer.making this process, the scholars were able to figure out something
First, it is clear that the frieze is meant to be thought of as a continuous whole.It was created as a continuous piece
This is particularly interesting because it is completely unprecedented in Greek art. In Greek art is the first of a kind. No one before was structured this way
Continuous friezes on the faces of Greek temples generally depicted single subjects, but if continued over all four sides of a building, the four stretches of the frieze would generally be thematically separate.We have four sides of the frieze, without solution of continuity but in all four sides we have four themes
The second unique aspect of the Parthenon frieze has to do with the fundamental nature of Greek art: namely that all works of art prior to the Parthenon frieze depicted only scenes from myth and legend. what is depicted on it is related to what was used to depict in Greek art: myth and legend
Yet, in this relief, for the first time in the history of Greek art, we find mortals, leading some scholars to the conclusion that what is depicted is a specific event that actually took place at a particular time and place.However, we have also mortals and else and this is the first example of a specific event in the ancient Greek
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