Nashville Parthenon # 2
by Allen Beatty
Title
Nashville Parthenon # 2
Artist
Allen Beatty
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
Nashville Parthenon # 2 by Allen Beatty
The Parthenon in Centennial Park, Nashville, Tennessee is a full-scale replica of the original Parthenon in Athens. It was designed by Confederate veteran William Crawford Smith and built in 1897 as part of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition.
Today the Parthenon, which functions as an art museum, stands as the centerpiece of Centennial Park, a large public park just west of downtown Nashville. Alan LeQuire's 1990 re-creation of the Athena Parthenos statue is the focus of the Parthenon just as it was in ancient Greece. The statue of Athena Parthenos within is a reconstruction of the long-lost original to careful scholarly standards: she is cuirassed and helmeted, carries a shield on her left arm and a small 6-foot-high statue of Nike (Victory) in her right palm, and stands 42 feet high, gilt with more than 8 pounds of gold leaf; an equally colossal serpent rears its head between her and her shield. Since the building is complete and its decorations were polychromed (painted in colors) as close to the presumed original as possible, this replica of the original Parthenon in Athens serves as a monument to what is considered the pinnacle of classical architecture. The plaster replicas of the Parthenon Marbles found in the naos (the east room of the main hall) are direct casts of the original sculptures which adorned the pediments of the Athenian Parthenon, dating back to 438 BC. The surviving originals are housed in the British Museum in London and at the Acropolis Museum in Athens.
Here we see the Doric columns on the side of the building .
This image is Featured in the following FAA Groups:
Everyday Wonder,
Seen But Not Noticed,
Photographic Camera Art,
Figurative Abstraction,
World Landscape Lovers of Art,
Out of the Ordinary,
Art and Meditation,
Daily Promotion,
Bath and Spa Prints,
Art - It Is Good For You,
All About Light,
Camera Art,
New FAA Uploads,
Shadow Silhouettes and Reflections Outdoors,
Art Forever With You,
Uploaded
October 11th, 2018
Statistics
Viewed 492 Times - Last Visitor from New York, NY on 04/24/2024 at 1:16 PM
Embed
Share
Sales Sheet
Similar Images
Comments (34)
Jan Mulherin
Congratulations and Happy New Year!! This stunning image has been selected to be featured for the week in the “Art for Ever with You” Group Home Page. You are welcome to add a preview of this featured image to the group’s discussion post titled “2019 January: Stunning Group Featured Images and Thank-you’s” for a permanent display within the group, to share this achievement with others. Also feel free to post your feature on our group Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/296998814248643/ . If the activity is allowed, your image will also be posted to our group Google+ page. Thank you for your participation in the group! ~Jan (January 3, 2019)
Jan Mulherin
Congratulations!! This beautiful image has been selected to be featured for the week in the “Shadow Silhouettes and Reflections Outdoors” Group Home Page. If enabled, your image will also be posted to our group Google+ Page. You are welcome to add a preview of this featured image to the group’s discussion post titled “2018 November: Stunning Group Featured Images and Thank-you’s” for a permanent display within the group, to share this achievement with others. Thank you for your participation in the group! (December 5, 2018)
Allen Beatty replied:
Jan, thank you very much for the Home Page Feature in the Shadow Silhouettes and Reflections Outdoors Group
Luther Fine Art
Congratulations! Your fantastic photographic art has been chosen as a Camera Art feature! You are invited to archive your work in the Features Archive discussion as well as any other discussion in which it would fit!
Allen Beatty
Nina,thank you very much for the Home Page Feature in the Art - It Is Good For You Group
Allen Beatty
Carole, thank you very much for the Home Page Feature in the World Landscape Lovers of Art Group
Recently Viewed
