Sujet

Cast of palmette-and-lotus frieze, Erechtheion epicranitis, (19th century?). Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Cast of palmette-and-lotus frieze, Erechtheion epicranitis, (19th century?). The cast shows a small area of the epicranitis (moulded border at the top of the wall) of the exterior of the main building of the Erechtheion, built between 421 and 405 BCE, on the acropolis of Athens. The cast is made from a fragment, now in the British Museum, which was acquired from Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin in 1816.

Date

1800

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Royal Academy of Arts, London/Paul Highnam

Notre référence

HRM26A34_213

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

57.1Mo (5.1Mo) / 45.1cm x 31.7cm / 5326 x 3744 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Europe religious arts religion temple shape sculpture art color decoration decorative Classical relief Greece century artefact concept cast mould decorated controversy artifact Erechtheion controversial mold Plaster Cast Colour 19th century bas relief bas-relief Ancient Greece Ancient Greek nineteenth century Temple of Athena 5th century BC Erechtheum TGN object sculpture Unknown plaster Thomas Bruce Lord Thomas Bruce Elgin Elgin Lord Elgin Earl of Elgin Earl of Kincardine 19th-century Royal Academy of Arts Temple of Athena Polias Thomas Bruce 7th Earl of Elgin and 11th Earl of Kincardine