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- Metopes are open spaces, left blank or carved, between the simulated beam-ends below the roof. The metopes over the outer columns were left plain, as they usually are on a Doric temple. The metopes over the inner columns, however, were carved and colorfully painted.
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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.
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The designers of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia intentionally...
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The first metope shows Athena as a young woman, comforting the tired hero who has accomplished his first Labour, against the Nemean Lion. On the third metope she received the dead Stympahlian birds from him, and is seated on a rock, a possible reference to Athens.
The designers of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia intentionally played with some of the metopes’ positions on the temple, integrating them into the building in new ways. [25] East metope 6 from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, 470–457 B.C.E., marble, 1.6 x 1.6 m (Archaeological Museum of Olympia; photo: Jean Housen , CC BY-SA 4.0)
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The choice of Herakles for the sculptural decoration of a temple dedicated to Zeus, especially at Olympia, is understandable. He is not only a son of Zeus and great- grandson of Pelops but the preeminent athlete and founder of the Olympic Games.
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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. [1]
The metope which describes the collection of the Apples of the Hesperids (the fouth on the East side) is composed of the strong vertical elements: Athena on the left, Herakles in the middle temporarily supporting the Heavens and Atlas, who has just returned from collecting the apples, on the right. Athena appears more mature here than the ...
