Photographs
Temple of Athene Nike. Venus Victrix—Wingless Victory
LandscapeMythology & AllegoryPhotograph
Details
- Author / creator
- Dimitrios Constantin (Greek, 1820–1900)
- Object type
- Photograph
- Date or period
- c. 1850s–60s
- Dimensions summary
- Image: 28.1 × 38.2 cm; Paper: 28.1 × 38.2 cm; Mounted: 47 × 61.8 cm
- Photo process
- Albumen
- Studio or series
- Dimitrios Constantin
- Place of origin
- Greece
- Acquisition method
- Purchase
- Credit line
- Purchased with the National Heritage Memorial Fund, 2022
About this object
Here we see a monument of ancient Greece through the eyes of a nineteenth-century Greek. This temple on the Acropolis in Athens, completed around 420 BC, was dedicated to the goddesses Athena and Nike, both of whom represented being victorious in war.
Materials and technique
Albumen print from collodion negative
Signature and marks
In black in, center of image, recto: “D. Constantin d’Athéns”
