In 1823, Sir Rober t Smirke designed the British Museum in the Greek Revival style. The Duveen Gallery, designed by the American architect John Russell Pope for the Par thenon sculptures was completed in 1939. It opened in 1962 to display 247 ft of the original 524 ft of the Par thenon frieze, 15 of the 92 metopes, and 17 pedimental figures. The frieze sculpted under the direction of Pheidias, depicts the Panathenaic procession with 378 figures and 245 animals.
West frieze, Block II, Figures 2 and 3. The two first ridders reach the NW corner.
Monoprint inspired by the equestrian parade of the frieze.
In the mid-5th centur y BC, Pericles initiated an ambitious building project on the Acropolis hill that included the Par thenon, the Propylaia, the Erechtheion and the temple of Athena Nike.
Odeon of Herodes Atticus
The Propylaea. Monumental entrance to the Acropolis rock.
Bastion and temple of Athenea Nike. The nor th frieze depicts Greek warriors and their horses.
East. The Par thenon is a Doric peristyle temple with 8 columns on the ends and 17 on the sides.
NE corner. Lion head false spout. Triglyphs alternating with metopes that, on the nor th side, depict the Troyan war.
“The man who directed all the projects and was overseer [episkopos] for Pericles was Phidias�. Plutarch
SE corner. The east pediment sculptures narrates the bir th of Athena from the head of her father, Zeus.
East pediment, detail. The original marble sculptures are at the British Museum.
West. Entasis: the columns are slightly convex to avoid an optical illusion caused by the shaft’s fluting.
SW corner. Reconstruction work on the cella walls.
The Erechtheion was considered the most sacred of the Acropolis temples.
At the south porch the roof was suppor ted by six statues of maidens known as the Car yatids.
View of Athens from the Propylaea. Between the columns the monument of Agrippa.
The Temple of Athenea Nike is a tetrastyle Ionic structure designed by the architect Kallikrates.
Steve Cuchner, Nancy Zimler and Dennis O’Neil
Georgia Deal, printmaker and teacher, at the Acropolis, Athens.
Changing of the Guard at Sintagma Square.
Horses at the Archeological Museum.
Cousteau's retrieval of the Antikythera shipwreck.
Bronze statue of a horse and a young jockey, found in the sea off Cape Artemision, north Euboea, ca. 140 BC.
Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece, designed by Bernard Tschumi and Michael Photiadis. In 1989, Melina Mercouri, as Minister of Culture star ted a campaign for the return of the Par thenon Marbles from the British Museum. In the meantime cast copies stand in place of the absent original frieze, metopes and pediments.
Nor th Frieze, Block N XXXVI, seventh group of ridders, leader ridder number 98.
The Car yatids.
The central Akroterion of the Parthenon roof.
The archaeological excavation at the base of the Museum.
Hadrian’s Library, created by Roman Emperor Hadrian in AD 132 on the north side of the Acropolis.
Church of Panaghia Kapnikarea on Ermou street.
Hellenic Seaways boat to Skopelos island, on the nor thernAegean sea, for a two week workshop in ar tist books and printmaking by Georgia Deal, wood-block printing by Dennis O’Neil, and painting by Steve Cushner at the Skopelos Foundation for the Ar ts, SKOPART.
Georgia, Steve, Dennis, Nancy, Gloria, Jill, Zoë, María Clara, Leslie, Beth, Carolee, Cindy.
Jennifer, Melissa, Mary, Mitzi, Daisy, Ashley, Maryanne, Pilar, MarĂa, Aselin, Simona, Jere.
Georgia’s demos: setting up, printing, book making. Selfies in my room, studio, and balcony.
Sunday brunch, potluck lunch, musical dinner and late night shopping.