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Meaning of "metopes"
metopes (noun) - architectural elements in classical Greek buildings, often decorated with reliefs or sculptures, typically found on the frieze of a Doric entablature
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- plural of metope
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The southern metopes are the best preserved.
Its entablature has triglyphs and metopes.
In the metopes are painted vases and medallions.
There is an entablature with metopes and triglyphs.
Sometimes the metopes had statues of heroes or gods on them.
Some artists might have worked on several metopes.
There is no ancient description of metopes that could give a definitive interpretation.
These metopes are both the best preserved and the most fully destroyed.
These could be just as well fragments of southern metopes as north ones.
A frieze with metopes and triglyphs ran all around the building.
Images of metopes.
The surviving metopes from the temple depict scenes from a gigantomachy.
This is shown best on the Adamklissi metopes.
The sculptures of the metopes of the monopteros constitute excellent specimens of archaic reliefs.
Skulpturhalle Basel offers the castings of all known metopes.
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The fourteen metopes of the west facade are still all in place on the building.
The frieze of the Doric entablature is divided into triglyphs and metopes.
The metopes were a dozen meters high and had an average of two characters each.
A simple frieze with smooth triglyphs and metopes separates the lower from the upper levels.
The metopes of the Parthenon were carved in several stages.
Triglyph blocks with slots for the insertion of metopes in the Marmaria at Delphi.
What the five metopes depict will be revealed when they are taken of the wall.
Frieze of the Temple of Aphaea with triglyphs slotted for metopes.
The east side metopes depict an Amazonomachy.
Metopes from the temple represented the labours of Hercules.
Phidias used the theme for the metopes of the east façade of the Parthenon c.
The metopes from the temple depict the twelve labours of Heracles.
Michaelis then made the hypothesis that the metopes on this facade could represent Gigantomachy.
And the metopes that we are looking at depict a battle between the Lapiths and the Centaurs.
It also contains the metopes of the Sicyonian Treasury.
Metopes of the Doric frieze.
The Doric metopes.
Metopes made from marble slotted into the frieze of the Stoa at Brauron.
I love those words, triglyphs and metopes.
The west metopes of the Parthenon depict a battle between Greeks and Amazons.
And in between the triglyphs, are metopes.
One of the metopes of Olympia brought back to the Louvre by the Morea expedition.
Light in composition, while the metopes are comparatively monotonous.
West metopes VI and VII are completely destroyed.
There were no pedimental sculptures, nor were the metopes decorated with sculpture.
Some metopes are housed in the Archaeological Museum of Palermo.
Beneath, there are three lines of metopes each containing figures poised in battle.
Metopes of the Parthenon.
There are three metopes that stand out in the " pithos.
And then in-between the triglyphs are spaces that are called metopes.
Some metopes included landscape features, perhaps painted as well.
Twenty-seven out of the thirty metopes of the treasury are also preserved.
The metopes were painted over in bright colours, creating a strong decorative impression.
In addition, the sculptors of metopes have renewed the way of representing them.
Two rows of simae with lion-heads and two rows of metopes have been found.
