Comments on: Parthenon frieze turns up in Staten Island

By: Meacham

Meacham — Thu, 07 May 2009 02:24:23 +0000

I’ll bet the casts were specified or donated by the architect of the library, Charles Rich. There were versions or segments of the frieze on the front of the Berkeley School in Manhattan, inside the auditorium of the Veltin School on 74th, inside the Peddie School’s Annenberg Hall, and in the club room of College Hall at Dartmouth, all educational buildings that Rich designed.

By: livius drusus

livius drusus — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:41:30 +0000

I don’t mind the rescued-from-a-burned-building look either, but it’s not healthy for the long-term survival of the casts. Besides, it’s not like they’ve looked like this for hundreds of years or anything. They’re relatively young.

By: Lees

Lees — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:34:15 +0000

Hmm! I actually prefer the look of the before restoration casts. Not that I don’t like the cleaned up casts.