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Interior of Parthenon as restored by Chipiez, Athens, Greece – Historic Reproduction

Interior of Parthenon as restored by Chipiez, Athens, Greece, c1910. — historic photograph
Interior of Parthenon as restored by Chipiez, Athens, Greece, c1910.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Interior of Parthenon as restored by Chipiez, Athens, Greece. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Interior of Parthenon as restored by Chipiez, Athens, Greece

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Rather than the ruined interior visitors see today, this print shows the Parthenon as reconstructed by the French architect Charles Chipiez, who imagined the temple's interior with its statues and surfaces restored. Chipiez worked with Georges Perrot on a multivolume history of ancient art, and his drawings aimed to show how the building might have looked when new in the fifth century B.C., when Phidias's gold-and-ivory statue of Athena stood inside. Dating to about 1910, the picture records how scholars then pictured Greek temples, a view that later research on ancient painted decoration has since revised in part.

Created / publishedc1910.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesNo copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Art restoration; Statues; Geogr.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,472 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-143590

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