friezes

Examples of friezes in the following topics:

• The Temple of Athena Nike

  • The Temple of Athena Nike is a simple Ionic temple with a frieze depicting historical battles and images of Greek and Athenian victory.
  • The continuous frieze around the temple depicts battle scenes.
  • Unlike the metopes of the Parthenon, which depict mythical battles, the battles shown on the frieze of the Temple of Athena Nike depict historical battles of the Greeks.
  • The scenes depicted on the frieze of the Temple of Athena Nike frieze display Greek and Athenian dominance and military power throughout historical events.
  • Describe the key elements of the Temple of Athena Nike, including its purpose, order, and style of frieze.

• Pergamon

  • The altar is known for its grand design and for its frieze which wraps 370 feet around the base of the altar depicting gigantomachy.
  • The most famous scene on the frieze depicts Athena fighting the giant Alkyoneus.
  • Athena's drapery swirls around her with deep folds and her whole body is nearly removed from the frieze.
  • From the north frieze of the Altar of Zeus, Bergama, Turkey.
  • From east frieze of the Altar of Zeus, Bargama, Turkey.

• Temple Architecture in the Greek Orientalizing Period

  • On the entablature, the frieze of the façade consisted of a series of reliefs depicting a procession of riders on horseback with little variation.
  • The current cracked condition of the frieze is a likely indicator that it was assembled in a piecemeal fashion, as opposed to being carved as a singular entablature.
  • Its frieze consisted of six stylized panthers standing in high relief.
  • Unlike the horses on the façade frieze, each group of three panthers face each other with their heads turned toward the viewer.
  • Atop the frieze sit two stylized female sculptures in the round who face each other.

• The Parthenon

  • The exterior of the temple has a Doric frieze consisting of metopes and triglyphs.
  • Inside the temple are Ionic columns and an Ionic frieze wraps around the exterior of the interior building.
  • The interior Ionic processional frieze wraps around the exterior walls of the naos.
  • Horsemen in the processional scene on the Ionic frieze of the Parthenon.
  • Describe the defining aspects of the metopes, processional friezes, pediments and sculptoral work of the Greek Parthenon.

• Art and Architecture of the Achaemenid Empire

  • The Achaemenid Persians were particularly skilled at constructing complex frieze reliefs; crafting precious metals into jewelry, vessels, statuettes, and a myriad of other shapes; glazed brick masonry; decorating palaces; and creating gardens.
  • It famously features the exquisite "Treasure Reliefs"—friezes emphasizing the divine presence and power of the king and depicting scenes from all across his vast empire and his army of Persian immortals.
  • This attention to diversity also appears in the reliefs from the hall of Apadana, in which leaders and dignitaries from various provinces appear in regional fashions beneath a frieze punctuated by male lamassus adopted from previous Mesopotamian cultures.
  • Decorative frieze from the palace of Darius the Great at Susa, ca. 510 BCE
  • Decorative panels from the terra-cotta griffins' frieze.

• Classical Greek Architecture

  • Doric entablatures consist of three parts: the architrave, the frieze, and the cornice.
  • On top of this rests the frieze, one of the major areas of sculptural decoration.
  • The frieze is divided into triglyps and metopes.
  • The frieze runs in a continuous band and is separated from other members by rows of small projecting blocks.
  • The external frieze often contained a continuous band of figurative sculpture of ornament, though this was not always the case.

• The Acropolis

  • The exterior of the temple has a Doric frieze consisting of metopes and triglyphs.
  • The interior Ionic processional frieze wraps around the exterior walls of the naos.
  • The continuous frieze around the temple depicts battle scenes from Greek history.
  • The scenes depicted on the frieze of the Temple of Athena Nike frieze display Greek and Athenian dominance and military power throughout historical events.
  • Ionic frieze from the interior of the Parthenon.

• Rome

  • Their work nearly always featured an ancient Roman ruin, frieze or object situated prominently in the image .
  • Their works nearly always featured an ancient Roman ruin, frieze or object situated prominently in the image.

• Delphi and Greek Treasuries

  • A continuous Ionic frieze that wrapped around the top of the treasury beneath the pediment depicted scenes from Greek mythology, including a gigantomachy on the north side, the Judgment of Paris on the west side, and gods watching the sack of Troy by the Greeks on the south and east sides.
  • The figures are carved in an Archaic style and in high relief, and they are almost, but not entirely, freed from the wall of the frieze.
  • The treasury has Doric columns and a frieze of triglyphs and thirty metopes that depict scenes from the life of Theseus, an Athenian mythological hero, and Herakles.
  • A gigantomachy scene from the north frieze of the Siphnian Treasury.

• Victory Columns under the Nervan-Antonines

  • In a spiral relief that wraps around the column, from its bottom to its top, is a 625-foot frieze depicting Trajan's two military campaigns against the Dacians.
  • The frieze depicts over 150 episodes with more than 2,500 figures.
  • Important characters, such as Trajan, reappear throughout the frieze and are easily identified.
  • A relief frieze encircles the column and depicts Marcus Aurelius's military campaigns at the end of his life in Germania.