Metope

"metope" is used of the intervals between dentils as well as of those between triglyphs. ❋ Vitruvius Pollio (N/A)

Then, in the evening's coup de théâtre, the minister put on a pair of white conservator's gloves, lifted a fragmentary marble relief of a boy's head toward the massed photographers, inserted the shard into a shattered metope, and beamed like a child who had completed his first jigsaw puzzle. ❋ Filler, Martin (2009)

The new museum, in fact, tried to recreate the exact same vantage points from ground to frieze, metope and panel. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Phèdre; and he told me that in the scene in which she stood with her arm raised to the level of her shoulder — one of those very scenes that had been greeted with such applause — she had managed to suggest with great nobility of art certain classical figures which, quite possibly, she had never even seen, a Hesperid carved in the same attitude upon a metope at ❋ Unknown (2003)

The most famous example of this is the metope at the Parthenon's northwestern corner, which was read in Christian terms as the Annunciation, and thus spared. ❋ Unknown (1999)

The 'thirty-two full-page plates' with which Covici-Friede tried to spice the rather stolid fare served up by Brandt-Licht included such daring images as the Medici Venus, the Hermes of Praxiteles, the Louvre Diana, a Parthenon metope, and, for a real thrill, the Naples Aphrodite Kallipygos. ❋ Knox, Bernard (1979)

The difficulty was, that if the triglyph was placed on the angle of the building (the practice of the Greeks) and the next triglyph was placed over the axis of the column, the metope (or panel) between these two triglyphs would be larger than the metopes between the triglyphs axial over the other columns. ❋ Various (N/A)

In case of the metope, the square field is filled with two or three figures balanced about a central line, a scheme self-contained and harmonious, which may be compared to a geometrical diagram, and carries simplicity to the farthest point. ❋ Various (N/A)

In the same way the somewhat rigid laws of composition of pediment metope and frieze compelled the Greek artist to think out schemes suitable to those forms. ❋ Various (N/A)

Only in parts of the building which were from the point of view of construction otiose, such as pediment and metope, was the art of the sculptor allowed to play; and even then it was bound to play appropriately to the nature of the deity within and the festivals of which the temple was to be the focus. ❋ Various (N/A)

Three bas-reliefs from a temple of Apollo at Thasos show a marked advance in artistic expression, which reaches its ultimate perfection in the lovely fragment of the Parthenon frieze, and in a mutilated metope from the same temple. ❋ Thomas Okey (1893)

Do not conceive of Shakespeare's plays as marble column, pediment, frieze, metope, built into a Parthenon, but conceive of each play as a Parthenon; for I think it certain each one might have stood solitary on cape or hill, as those old Greeks built temples to their tutelar deities. ❋ Unknown (1892)

Gradually the background is cut down, the space restricted, the figure enlarged until it fills its frame as a metope of the Parthenon is filled. ❋ Kenyon Cox (1887)

MUTULES (best seen in the frontispiece), one over each triglyph and each metope. ❋ Frank Bigelow Tarbell (1886)

The material of the metope, as of the whole temple, is a local poros, and the work is executed in high relief. ❋ Frank Bigelow Tarbell (1886)

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. ❋ Frank Bigelow Tarbell (1886)

That city was founded, according to our best ancient authority, about the year 629 B.C., and the temple from which our metope is taken is certainly one of the oldest, if not the oldest, of the many temples of the place. ❋ Frank Bigelow Tarbell (1886)

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. 84). ❋ Frank Bigelow Tarbell (1886)

Your hands would fit much better in a metope of the Elgin Marbles, than in a wash-tub, or ❋ Unknown (1872)

It is supposed that the following metope (13) represents the Centaur ❋ W. Blanchard Jerrold (1855)