Über der Engpass der Thermopylen – Vintage Wall Art
(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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Über der Engpass der Thermopylen in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Über der Engpass der Thermopylen
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Its caption places the scene at Thermopylae, the narrow coastal pass in central Greece where a small force under the Spartan king Leonidas held back a far larger Persian army in 480 BCE. The print comes from an album of the 1936 Berlin Olympics issued under Leni Riefenstahl's name, and its classical Greek setting reflects how those Games drew on ancient Greece for imagery and symbolism. The caption card is unverified, so the location is worth checking against the album's sequence before it is taken as settled.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint by Leni Riefenstahl. This record contains unverified data from caption card. In album: XI Olympiade, Berlin 1936 / Leni Riefenstahl. Berlin: 1936. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,259 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-151525 |
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