Parthenon metope, South 29, Centaur and Lapith
- Title:
- Parthenon metope, South 29, Centaur and Lapith
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Unknown (supervised by Phidias)
- Photographer:
- Alexandridis, Annetta
- Date:
- ca. 1890-1900 (cast)
447-438 BCE (original)
2008 (image)
- Site:
- Athens, Greece (original)
- Location:
- Warehouse
Athens, Greece (original) - ID Number:
- CCC_0160
- Accession Number:
- 166 A (new sticker on front)
160 - File Name:
- CCC_0160.tif
- Culture:
- Greek
- Style/Period:
- High Classical
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
- Materials/Techniques:
- plaster cast (sculpture)
marble relief (sculpture technique) (original) - Subject:
- Parthenon (Athens, Greece)
Mythology, Classical
Centaurs - Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- three-quarter view from below
- Measurement:
- 132 x 130 x 3 (bottom) x 7.5 (top) (centimeters, height x width x diameter x diameter)
- Description:
- This is a damaged cast of Parthenon metope South 29, a damaged original, depicting a centaur carrying off a Lapith woman. The centaur, bearded and staring into the distance beyond the viewer, grasps the Lapith around the waist and upright and gallops towards the viewer's right with her. In this cast, his body is broken in two, and the ends of all legs are broken away, whereas in the original parts of only two legs are missing. Here, as in the original, the centaur's right arm is missing, as is his tail. The Lapith wears a long, belted chiton that has slipped down to leave bear her left shoulder and breast, and a chlamys that flows behind her and the torso of the centaur. Here as in the original, she is missing her head, right arm, and part of her right foot. In the 1890s, this metope was on display with architectural casts in the Architectural Museum in Lincoln Hall. It does not have a Sage Collection number in the Sage catalogue (p. 35).
- Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
no. 1816,0610.13 - Bibliography:
- John Boardman, Greek Sculpture: The Classical Period (London: Thames and Hudson, 1985), 103-105, fig. 90
Frank Brommer, Die Metopen des Parthenon (Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1967), 122-123, pls. 224-228
Ernst Berger, Der Parthenon in Basel: Dokumentation zu den Metopen (Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1986), 96, pl. 106-107
Alfred Emerson, Catalogue of the H. W. Sage Collection of Casts from Antique Sculpture (Ithaca: Cornell University), 35
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=461682&partId=1&searchText=parthenon+metope&page=1 - Repository:
- Cornell University (current)
London, British Museum (original) - Collecting Program:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The images in the Cornell Collection of Antiquities: Casts are protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are their creators, generally Cornell University Library, Annetta Alexandridis, and Verity Platt. This collection of plaster casts owned by Cornell University was photographed by Cornell University Library, Alexandridis, Platt, and Andreya L. Mihaloew from 2010-2015, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Annetta Alexandridis. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact Annetta Alexandridis and Verity Platt for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.