Sacred Athena

A lived-in view through Athena’s Acropolis temple

Three nineteenth-century figures stand among immense columns, with ancient fragments, a later tower and distant mountains beyond. It combines a vivid sense of…

Three nineteenth-century figures stand among immense columns, with ancient fragments, a later tower and distant mountains beyond. It combines a vivid sense of human scale with the layered history of Athena’s sacred landscape.

Source citation: Martinus Rørbye. A lived-in view through Athena’s Acropolis temple. 1844. Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK), Copenhagen. KMS3769. https://open.smk.dk/artwork/image/KMS3769

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