The pedimental sculpture represents the Gods of Olympus, while the frieze shows the Panathenaic procession and ceremonial events that took place every four years to honour the titular Goddess of Athens.

On the top of the gothic window there's also a marble frieze with a helmet surmounted with a spread lion which reminds the role of the doge as the captain of the republic ; at each side of the central helmet we can find two putti holding a shield which represents the Foscari's coat of arms with the winged lion, symbol of Venice.

The low relief on the frieze represents a scene with a war chariot drawn by horses.

:* The Amazonomachy frieze-A long section of relief frieze showing the battle between Greeks and Amazons

Some of the surviving sculptures at the British Museum include fragments of statues and many slabs of the frieze showing the battle between the Greeks and the Amazons.

The frieze of the pronaos depicts a scene from the battle of Theseus with the Pallantides in the presence of gods while the frieze of the opisthodomos shows the battle of Centaurs and Lapiths.

The north frieze depicted a battle between Greeks entailing cavalry.

The south frieze showed the decisive victory over the Persians at the battle of Plataea.

The base is decorated with a frieze in high relief showing the battle between the Giants and the Olympian gods known as the Gigantomachy.

First, at the right ( northern ) side of the eastern frieze, Hera, Heracles, Zeus, Athena and Ares were shown engaged in battle.

The eastern frieze concludes with Ares, the god of war, who goes into battle with a chariot and pair of horses.

Some scholars believe that the east frieze of the Hephaisteion depicts the battle of Theseus against the Pallantidae.

Inside, however, there was a continuous Ionic frieze showing Greeks in battle with Amazons and the Lapiths engaged in battle with Centaurs.

Metopes often had painted or sculptural decoration ; the most famous example is the 92 metopes of the frieze of the Parthenon marbles depicting the battle between the Centaurs and the Lapiths.

The carved statues of the frieze against the low wall are for the most part headless, but their exquisitely graceful nude and draped torsos and the kneeling Atlantes are well preserved in their perfect proportion.

The photograph, Figure 1 of the completed frieze, shows how, having been separated from his fellows in useless isolation for eighty years, he has now been given a hand, and by juxtaposition ( and the permission of the Committee ), given a new job, to represent the witnesses of the first flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903.

Graeme Base also created a series of riddles relating to hidden objects within each of the illustrations written especially for the wall frieze.

The frieze for the Library was titled " The Quest for the Holy Grail.

The altar to them at the agora, for example, included Hestia, but the east frieze of the Parthenon had Dionysus instead.

In those Continental contexts where Rococo is fully in control, sportive, fantastic, and sculptured forms are expressed with abstract ornament using flaming, leafy or shell-like textures in asymmetrical sweeps and flourishes and broken curves ; intimate Rococo interiors suppress architectonic divisions of architrave, frieze, and cornice for the picturesque, the curious, and the whimsical, expressed in plastic materials like carved wood and above all stucco ( as in the work of the Wessobrunner School ).

The term was first used in the West in Italian, where rabeschi was used in the 16th century as a term for " pilaster ornaments featuring acanthus decoration, specifically " running scrolls " that ran vertically up a panel or pilaster, rather than horizontally along a frieze.

All the columns are centered under a triglyph in the frieze, except for the corner columns.

The Neo-Egyptian style then became a reference for Masonic architecture, and we can consider the lodge of Mons as a model of its kind with its numerous motives " Egyptian " papyrus capitals, frieze lotus bud, etc ..

The chapter house is notable for its octagonal shape, slender central pillar and decorative mediæval frieze.

It is usually known as the Royal Society of Arts for brevity ( and on the building's frieze The Royal Society of Arts — see photograph ).

On the RSA building's frieze The Royal Society of Arts words ( see photograph ) are engraved, although its full name is Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.

It has been suggested that this frieze with its Latin motto is the real counterpart of the one translated for the waiting crowd by the title character of Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure.

On the wild west coast, where the Atlantic winds bring almost constant rains, he dispenses with ruff and frills and wears a frieze overcoat over his pretty red suit, so that, unless on the lookout for the cocked hat, ye might pass a Leprechawn on the road and never know it's himself that's in it at all.

It is recognized for its singular, great frieze which is thought to be some main deity figure surrounded by either calendar signs or natural forces for agricultural worship.

Above the frieze is an inscription in terracotta letters that combine historical fact and Biblical quotations: " This hall was erected for the advancement of the arts and sciences and works of industry of all nations in fulfilment of the intention of Albert Prince Consort.

His great success dates, however, from 1833, when he received the cross of the Legion of Honour for his statue of a Neapolitan Fisher Boy playing with a Tortoise ( now in the Louvre ), which also procured for him the important commission for all the sculptural frieze ornament and one group on the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris.

This frieze was designed by Mr. Henning, junior, the son of Mr. Henning who was well known for his models of the Elgin marbles.

( 1822 ); and he prepared designs for a frieze and other decorations for Buckingham Palace, which were not executed, owing to the death of George IV.

* c. 530 BC — 525 BC — Battle between the Gods and the Giants, fragments of the north frieze of the Siphnian Treasury, from the Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi, is made.

After many years and many interruptions he was able to finish the canopy fresco, and slightly less than half the frieze, beginning with the Liberty group opposite the East door, and ending with William Penn, all but one leg, when a tragic accident ended his career.

A frieze can be found on many Greek and Roman buildings, the Parthenon Frieze being the most famous, and perhaps the most elaborate.

The frieze depicts many things.

" It has many panes of glass to admit natural light, and there is a large frieze of Christopher Columbus in the main hall of the building.

There is also a lower frieze with the names of many other distinguished graduates, and a place on the lower frieze can be awarded while the person is still alive.

At many places in the Gigantomachy frieze, other Greek works of art can be recognized as having served as models.

A renovation in the 1990s did not restore any of Harris's decorative painting, but did preserve many of his most important works, including a nativity scene, the Virgin Mary Enthroned, St. Patrick's and St. Catherine's altars, " The Precious Blood ", a carved and painted frieze featuring lambs, a memorial to deceased Paulists, and a crucifixion.

A section of this frieze has survived the many subsequent phases of alterations.

Later classicizing art of the Hellenistic and Roman eras also looked to the frieze for inspiration as attested by the Lycian Sarcophagus of Sidon, Phoenicia, the Ara Pacis Augustae, the Gemma Augustea, and many pieces of the Hadrianic generation.