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Facade and North Colonnade of the Parthenon on the Acropolis, Athens (Main View)
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
Full view of the great Doric temple dedicated to Athena, the patron goddess of Athens, designed and built in the fifth century BC. Heavily damaged by an explosion in 1684. Noted for the extreme refinement of its details including the slight curvature of its carefully spaced columns.
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- Title: Facade and North Colonnade of the Parthenon on the Acropolis, Athens (Main View)
- Creator: Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey
- Date Created: 1842
- Physical Dimensions: 18.8 × 24 cm (7 3/8 × 9 7/16 in.)
- Type: Cased object
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Daguerreotype
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 2003.82.2
- Culture: French
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
- Creator Display Name: Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey (French, 1804 - 1892)
- Classification: Photographs (Visual Works)
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