3 мар. 2024 г. · One of only two almost complete remaining telamons of nearly 40 that had supported the 5th century BC Doric temple, this statue is the only one to be ...
a support sculpted in the form of a man, which may take the place of a column, a pier or a pilaster. The Roman term for such a sculptural support is telamon.
The statue has been composed of 26 pieces and has been placed in the supine position where there was the Temple of Olympian Zeus. The Telamon was here until ...
14 мар. 2024 г. · A Telamon (Atlas) was raised: a giant made of arenaceous tufa, nearly eight meters in height. The colossus has been recomposed and partially reconstructed.
29 февр. 2024 г. · The statue, nearly 8 meters tall, is supported by a 12-meter steel structure to which supports are anchored, holding the individual pieces of ...
2 мар. 2024 г. · The 8-metre-high representation of the mythological giant Telamon once supported the temple of Zeus, one of the famed Doric constructions on the ...
28 апр. 2011 г. · Telamon is thus shown in sculpture as a brawny male bearing a weight or burden. His name has become the architectural term for a sculpted figure ...