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- Set beneath the pediments, designed to be viewed against them, were a series of carved metopes – individual square panels lined up in a row, with six on each side of the temple.
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Metopes are square panels that alternate with triglyphs on buildings that conform to the Doric order. This particular metope was originally positioned high up on the east (front) side of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia.
- Temple of Zeus, Olympia
Apollo (detail), west pediment of the Temple of Zeus at...
- Temple of Zeus, Olympia
Apollo (detail), west pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, 470–457 B.C.E., marble, 3.3 m high (Archaeological Museum of Olympia; photo: Egisto Sani, CC-BY-NC 2.0) At the center of the pediment, the god Apollo stands still.
Metopes of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia. Drawing. John Boardman, Greek Sculpture Classical Period, fig.22 (Marion Cox) The twelve metopes show the Labours of Herakles. His guardian goddess Athena appears on four of them, and is depicted with increasing maturity and authority.
The metopes of the Parthenon are the surviving set of what were originally 92 square carved plaques of Pentelic marble originally located above the columns of the Parthenon peristyle on the Acropolis of Athens. If they were made by several artists, the master builder was certainly Phidias.
The Temple of Zeus at Olympia was an ancient Greek temple in Olympia, Greece, dedicated to the god Zeus. The temple, built in the second quarter of the fifth century BC, was the very model of the fully developed classical Greek temple of the Doric order .
Temple of Zeus at Olympia, metope. Metopes, the panels on a temple between the columns and the pediment, were ideal places to decorate with sculpture; they are square, and come in sets of even numbers.
The erection of the Temple of Zeus with its sculptural adornment represents the first major building following the Persian invasion of Greece. It is the first significant monument of the Early Classical period and the sculpture in particular illustrates the extraordinary change which has taken place since the Archaic Period.
