Details: The Caryatids were produced in the 5th century BC and are now located in the Acropolis Museum in Athens. Information: A Caryatid is a supporting column of a building which takes the form of a female figure. The Caryatids located in the Acropolis Museum were once part of the Erechtheion which stands atop the Read more about The Caryatids[…]
Details: The Diadoumenos was a bronze sculpture produced by the ancient Greek sculptor Polykleitos around 420 BC. The sculpture shown in the adjoining photograph is of a marble copy produced in the 1st century BC. Information: The Diadoumenos derives its name from the action taken by the figure, he is tying a victory ribbon or Read more about The Diadoumenos[…]
Details: The Temple of Poseidon was built around 440 BC and is located at the southern most tip of Attica, Cape Sounion. Information: This site has been of significance to natives since the Bronze age. The temple itself was originally built in the archaic style around 480 BC but was destroyed during the Greco-Persian War. Read more about The Temple of Poseidon[…]
Details: The Hestiatorion (banquet hall) is located in the archaeological site in Epidaurus and dates from the late 4th or early 3rd century BC. Information: The banquet hall offered sacrificial meals relating to the cult of Asklepios around the year 300 BC. The interior courtyard was defined by a colonnade of sixteen Doric columns which Read more about The Hestiatorion[…]
Details: This theatre was designed by Polykleitos the Younger in the 4th century BC and is located in the archaeological site in Epidaurus. Information:The theatre is one of the best preserved examples of ancient Greek architecture. The precisely proportioned theatre boasts incredible acoustics, where each spectator holds a prime position. As seen in the theatre in Argos Read more about Theatre Epidaurus[…]
Details: The theatre is embedded into the side of Mount Larissa in the ancient Agora in Argos, which dates to the fifth century BC. Information: The theatre in Argos grew significantly in size from a relatively small archaic theatre (now odeon, 100 meters to the south) to a Hellenistic theatre which seated 20,000 spectators. This Read more about Theatre Argos[…]
Details: The School of Athens is a fresco located in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. Information: Raphael was commissioned to decorate the public reception rooms of the Papal Apartments intended for Pope Julius II. These rooms are referred to as the Raphael Rooms in the Vatican Museums. They consisted Read more about The School of Athens[…]
Details: The Momo Staircase is located in the Vatican Museums in the Vatican City State. Information: The staircase was designed by Giuseppe Momo in 1932. The staircase forms a double helix consisting of two ramps which circumnavigate around one central point. One ramps accommodates people ascending while the other accommodates those descending. The staircase covers Read more about The Momo Staircase[…]
Details: The Laocoön is a Roman sculptural copy of an original Greek bronze and is located in the Vatican Museums. Information: According to Pliny, the statue was made by Hagesander, Athenodoros and Polydorus, three sculptors from the Greek island of Rhodes. Discovered on the Esquiline Hill in Rome in 1506, the marble copy was missing its right Read more about The Laocoön[…]
Details: The Cupid and Psyche Kiss is located in the Capitoline Museums, in Rome. Information: This sculpture dates from the first or second century AD and is a Roman copy of a Greek original from the second century BC. The sculpture was discovered in 1749 on the Aventine Hill in Rome. The sculpture represents a Read more about The Cupid and Psyche Kiss[…]