Carl Haller von Hallerstein
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Johann Carl Christoph Wilhelm Joachim Haller von Hallerstein was a German architect, archaeologist and art historian.
Haller von Hallerstein by Otto Magnus von Stackelberg, 1814
Bassae Frieze
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The Bassae Frieze is the high relief marble sculpture in 23 panels, 31 m long by 0.63 m high, made to decorate the interior of the cella of the Temple of Apollo Epikourios at Bassae. It depicts variou
Carl Haller von Hallerstein
…year, von Hallerstein (with Cockerell, Gropius, Linckh, Stackelberg, Bröndsted and Foster) excavated the ruins of the temple of Apollo in Bassae, whose relief frieze was taken to the British Museum by Cockerell. Sadly Haller's drawings were lost at sea. Later he led yet more excavations on Ithaka and in the ruins…
The Bassae Frieze in the British Museum
Reconstruction of the temple showing the frieze in situ, note the Corinthian column, a.
Charles Cockerell's fanciful reconstruction of the temple; there is no evidence for a barrel roof or skylight.
BM 537 Achilles (left) and Penthesilea (on the ground)