Description
The belief that the Parthenon is the most important building in the world, the most perfect structure ever to have been made, is deeply rooted in contemporary thought. The book presents a collection of essays by ten expert scholars, whose shared subject is the Parthenon, though approached from different angles (architecture, archaeology, history of art). Its eleva-tion to the status of the ultimate monument of an tiquity but also of the supreme model for the con-temporary world has had a profound effect on artistic and architectural creative activity.
CONTENTS
- Foreword
- Savas Kondaratos The Parthenon as Cultural Ideal
- Manolis Korres The Architecture of the Parthenon
- Angelos Delivorrias The Sculptures of the Parthenon
- Manolis Korres The Parthenon from Antiquity to the 19th Century
- Fani Mallouchou-Tufano The Parthenon from Cyriacus of Ancona to Frédéric Boissonas: Description, Research and Depiction
- Panayotis Tournikiotis The Place of the Parthenon in the History and Theory of Modern Architecture
- Stelios Lydakis The Impact of the Parthenon Sculpture on the 19th and 20th Century Sculpture and Painting
- David Van Zanten The Parthenon Imagined Painted
- Dimitris Philippides The Parthenon as Appreciated by Greek Society
- Charalambos Bouras Restoration Work on the Parthenon a d Changing Attitudes towards the Conservation of Monuments
- Alexandros Argyriou The Parthenon in the Consciousness of Modern Greek Poets and Thinkers
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