The external scaffolding hiding the Parthenon’s western face was removed in early June following the completion of the ...

In classical architecture, a pediment is a low-pitched triangular gable on the front of a building. The motif has survived through the ages, though in forms that have sometimes deviated wildly from ...

From this week, visitors to the Acropolis of Athens can savor the site’s looming Parthenon in a manner previously unseen for centuries. On June 15, the Greek Ministry of Culture’s Acropolis ...

The Parthenon got a glow-up. Preservationists added marble slabs to the western pediment of the iconic temple, restoring a ...

Greece is marking a major milestone with the completion of work to reveal the western pediment of the Parthenon. For the first time in more than two centuries, the country's most famous monument is ...

Carpenter Jesus Mateo chisels away some old adhesive that helped hold the pediment and pilasters that had been in place for 80 years at John Kelly’s house in Silver Spring, Md. (John Kelly/The ...

A pediment is the highly visible and memorable “triangle” found above porticos — two-story porches — doorways, windows and dormers. Developed by ancient Greeks as the decorative end to a gable roof, ...

United States General Services Administration, 1988. Gurney, George, "Sculpture and the Federal Triangle," Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985, pg ...

If the high and mighty gable ends of roofs and pediments "peak" your interest, then you will enjoy the photographs and narrative for this month's article. The development of the pediment and gable ...

This is a restored, miniature, cast reproduction of a group of figures, H and I, from the West pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, identified as the Lapith Deidameia and the Centaur Eurytion.

For the first time in about 220 years, the west façade of the Parthenon in Greece can be see in its fullest possible form. External scaffolding has now been permanently removed from the monument, ...