Alan LeQuire
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Alan LeQuire is an American sculptor from Nashville, Tennessee. Many of his sculptures are installed in the city.
Alan LeQuire at the bottom of his replica of Phidias' Athena Parthenos in Nashville.
Athena Parthenos
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The statue of Athena Parthenos was a monumental chryselephantine sculpture of the goddess Athena. Attributed to Phidias and dated to the mid-fifth century BCE, it was an offering from the city of Athe
Alan LeQuire
…of Fine Arts degree. LeQuire specializes in work of great scale, usually large public commissions. His most famous work is the replica of Phidias' Athena Parthenos that stands in the naos of the full-scale reconstruction of the Acropolis Parthenon in Nashville's Centennial Park. This statue, cast in a composite…
The Varvakeion Athena reflects the type of the restored Athena Parthenos: Roman period, 2nd century CE (National Archaeological Museum of Athens).
Fragment of the accounts relating to the realization of the statue of Athena Parthenos, IG I3 458, Museum of the Acropolis of Athens.
Medusa Rondanini, Munich Glyptothek, No. 252.
The Strangford Shield, a Roman copy of the shield of the Athena Parthenos; below the gorgon head are portraits of Phidias and Pericles