Parthenon

model

View of main approach showing to the right the small Ionic

Temple of Athena Nike, c. 425 BC

Old painting (pre-restoration)

East view (Back)

Corner showing the narrowing of the intercolumniation to solve the

triglyph problem

Detail of the stylobate showing its subtle curvature

Refinements exaggerated

Parthenon, floor plan

Plan with axonometric

Interior with Athena

Athena

Reconstruction showing Phidias' Chryselephantine (gold and ivory) statue of Athena (Note: the cella of the Parthenon is no longer thought to be open to the sky, as it was when this

reconstruction was drawn)

Façade elevation

classical orders

classical orders vocabulary:

Pediment

Entablature (triglyph)

Column (base, shaft, capital)

Cornice

Doric, Ionic, Corinthian

Acroteria

Stylobate

Triglyphs development

Triglyphs, detail with frieze

Location of Elgin Marbles frieze

Elgin Marbles, British Museum

Painted bright colors

Elgin Marbles from Pediment

Elgin Marbles from Pediment, right

Elgin Marbles from Pediment, left