Photography by Claudia Fanelli
Parthenon On The Parkway
The Philadelphia Art Museum, aka "The Parthenon on the Parkway," because of its Greek temple design. This tympanum of this part of the museum features ten free-standing figures, mythological Greek gods and goddesses signifying sacred and profane love. The tympanum is seventy-feet wide at its base above the supporting columns, and rises to twelve feet in height at the center. It was designed by C. Paul Jennewein.
I did not get all of it in the shot due to a series of wedding parties posing in front of the museum, thwarting my efforts for a clean shot. I had to edit out the griffins- see below.
Parthenon On The Parkway
The Philadelphia Art Museum, aka "The Parthenon on the Parkway," because of its Greek temple design. This tympanum of this part of the museum features ten free-standing figures, mythological Greek gods and goddesses signifying sacred and profane love. The tympanum is seventy-feet wide at its base above the supporting columns, and rises to twelve feet in height at the center. It was designed by C. Paul Jennewein.
I did not get all of it in the shot due to a series of wedding parties posing in front of the museum, thwarting my efforts for a clean shot. I had to edit out the griffins- see below.