Monday, June 21, 2010

AIC: Freizes and Sculptural Ornamentation..







Art Institute of Chicago..
Freizes and Sculptural ornamentation..
Freizes are by Philip Martiny..
The question is.. Are they symbolic?
If yes, what do they represent?







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2 comments:

  1. adgornJuly 9, 2010 at 9:20 AM

    Was able to find out from another old Trib article that these are representations of friezes that are on the Parthenon in Greece.

    Wikipedia has a good article at:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenon_Frieze
    Notice the photo about 1/3 of the way down of "Weavers section of the frieze, East VII, 49–56, Louvre, (MR 825)."

    Also, Riedy's "Chicago Sculpture" has an interesting mention:
    "Philip Martiny's not-too-faithful copy of the Parthenon processional frieze - a rather common decorative detail on late nineteenth and early twentieth century civic buildings and museums in this country appears on the front and sides of the Art Institute...Thirty years later (~1923) a part of the frieze was painted blue "as an experiment in giving a populace hardened to soot and grime something cheerful to look at."

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  2. JyotiJuly 9, 2010 at 12:29 PM

    Thanks Alan,
    That's an interesting information.
    Thanks for all your help..

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