The designs take the form of bands of figures stamped round the upper part of the vase, either in groups on the principle of the metope or in extended friezes.
There are on this metope some remains of the bead and reel moulding on the upper margin.
This metope is a cast from the one removed by Choiseul-Gouffier when French ambassador at the Porte, about the year 1787, and now in the Louvre.
Carrey's drawing shows that this metopehas suffered little since his time.
This metope seems in the same state as when drawn by Carrey.
The first metope on the south side of the Parthenon, reckoning from the south-west angle, is still in position on the temple (Michaelis, pl.
This metope was formed of two slabs, of which the upper is wanting.
The only metope from the north side, of which a cast is exhibited in the British Museum, is the last of the series, at the north-west angle of the temple.
This metope is cast from the original in the Acropolis Museum at Athens.
Cast of a fragment of a metope from the third temple at Selinus, in which a goddess, probably Athene, moves to the right, treading down a prostrate giant.
Cast of a metope from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia.
Cast of a metope from the oldest temple at Selinus.
His left hand presses against her left side, and it appears from Carrey's drawing of this metope that his right hand grasped her right wrist.
The next metope in order on the Parthenon is now only preserved in Carrey's drawing, which represents a Lapith armed with a shield, who seems to be stabbing the Centaur in the belly.
From Carrey's drawing, taken when this metope was nearly complete, we learn what the action was.
A mutilated male head, inserted in the same metope as last.
Metope from the Temple of Zeus, at Olympia face 44 Fig.
Ornamental lines in the Frieze of the Parthenon 8 Metope of the Parthenon, showing relation and proportions of the masses in relief to the ground.
Returning to the Parthenon, we see that the same principle is observable in the pediment and metope sculptures, the frieze of the cella being really a mural decoration consisting of facing slabs of marble.
In the arrangement of the patterns an architectural instinct is clearly at work, the influence of the Doric metope being especially prominent.
The same distortion occurs in a second metope of this same temple, representing Heracles carrying off two prankish dwarfs who had tried to annoy him, and is in fact common in early Greek work.
Transporting ourselves now from the eastern to the western confines of Greek civilization, we may take a look at a sculptured metope from Selinus in Sicily (Fig.
In the same way the somewhat rigid laws of composition of pedimentmetope and frieze compelled the Greek artist to think out schemes suitable to those forms.
The subjects are provided by the twelve labours of Heracles; the figures introduced in each metope are but two or at most three; and the action is simplified as much as possible.
The metopes of the temple are in the same style of art as the pediments, but the defects of awkwardness and want of mastery are less conspicuous, because the narrow limits of the metope exclude any elaborate grouping.
When the space is square we have much the same problem as is presented by the metope spaces of a temple.
For example, the temple must have two pediments and two porches, and on its sides and fronts triglyph and metope must alternate with unvarying regularity.
Metope from the Cella of the Great Temple of Olympia.
Metope of the Southern Temple upon the Eastern Plateau of Selinous.
A continuous band, like that beneath the triglyphs, terminated the frieze; but the individuality of triglyph and metopewas even here maintained, the superposed member being broken around them, as a separate coronation for each.
Among the provincial monuments, the first to be noted, because the oldest known, are the metope reliefs upon the middle temple of the Acropolis of Selinous in Sicily.
It would be contrary to the open and non-sustaining character of the metope for this to be assigned to a position so constructively important.
This was the more acceptable, as the appearance of the frieze was improved by its adoption; the breadth of triglyph and metopebecame nearly equal and better proportioned, their alternating rhythm more pleasing.
Metope Relief from the Middle Temple of the Acropolis of Selinous.
It was built of poros, with the exception of the metope reliefs upon the fronts of the cella, and the carved gutter and roof tiles, which were of marble.
Head from a Metope of the Middle Temple upon the Eastern Plateau of Selinous.
A Metope may be described as the intermediate space in a Doric frieze, between two triglyphs, or separating grooves.
Metope 16c has been recently discovered at Athens.
It is supposed that the following metope (13) represents the Centaur Eurytion carrying off Hippodamia.
The third metope (3) shows an Athenian under very disadvantageous circumstances.
The seventh metope (7) is much mutilated; but the figure of an Athenian thrown, and a Centaur trampling upon him, are clearly discernible.
The fifth metope (5) is also much mutilated; but here both figures were evidently represented mutually confident of victory.
This metope is more angular in execution than the other metopes; and was probably executed, under the guidance of Phidias, by one of the old school of Greek sculptors.
The first metope to which the visitor will, in natural order, direct his attention, is that marked 1.
The fourteenth metope (14) represents an Athenian thrown by a Centaur.
The last, or sixteenth metope (16), is supposed to have been executed by the same inferior hand as that employed upon the fifteenth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "metope" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
