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Pheidias and the Frieze of the Parthenon by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Date: 1868 - 1869
Medium: Oil on mahogany panel.
Material(s): Mahogany wood
Height: 725 mm
Bequeathed by Sir John C Holder
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery[1]

Among the spectators, critics have identified Pericles, the bearded man facing Pheidias. Next to him is his mistress, Aspasia. In the foreground stands a boy, Alcibiades, with an older friend.^[1]^[2]

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^ "he introduces us to Phidias showing the frieze of the Parthenon to Pericles, Alcibiades, and Aspasia;" in SCRIBNERS MAGAZINE, DECEMBER 1895, LAURENS ALMA-TADEMA, R.A. By Cosmo Monkhouse; p.670 Photo of page in the Cornell Library
^ "Little is actually known of the life of Phidias, but Alma Tadema's picture easily convinces us that thus the great sculptor displayed to his friends and patrons his completed handiwork. Phidias himself, standing within the rope barrier, seems to await the favorable verdict of his illustrious protector, Pericles, who confronts him and has at his side the beautiful Aspasia. The young man at the extreme left seems meant for Alcibiades, who has also accepted an invitation to this private view of the frieze of the Parthenon, seen not as we now behold it in the British Museum, but with its match-less figures glowing with the tints just laid upon it by Phidias and his fellow-workers." in Among the Great Masters of Painting: Scenes in the Lives of Famous Painters; Walter Rowlands p.2

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