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Athens Acropolis before (1978) & after (2022)

24 images Created 9 Feb 2013

I happened to be visiting in Athens in 1978, just as the Acropolis restoration program was beginning. The wounds in the beautiful buildings saddened me, and the busy concentration of the workmen charmed me.

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  • Approaching the Acropolis, the Parthenon roof and entablature appear peeking over the heights.
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  • An Acropolis restoration supervisor checks verticality of a Propylon support with a plumb bob, while a couple of tourists watch from below.
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  • Acropolis: Parthenon, details of entablature showing broken cornice and one metope still in situ.
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  • Acropolis: Parthenon, details of entablature, looking upward at one corner showing a piece of a column capital broken off and a gaping space along one cornice.
    Parthenon_GRC197804-1-15.jpg
  • Acropolis: Parthenon, details of entablature on the eastern side,  Upward view of cornice, metopes, one column capital.  In the pediment, one horse's head and one god's knee project above the cornice.
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  • Acropolis: Parthenon, details of entablature.  Doric column capitals, abaci, entablature, and a corner of the cornice with horse's head silhouetted against blue sky..
    Parthenon_GRC197804-1-16.jpg
  • Athens Acropolis repair needs in detail of broken colonnade.
    Parthenon_GRC197804-1-19.jpg
  • Acropolis: Temple of Nike detail: damaged Ionic frieze and capitals showing holes and broken cornice.
    Nike_GRC197804-1-29.jpg
  • Acropolis, Parthenon: details of temple base and substructure, weeds growing in between the stones..
    Parthenon_stylobate_GRC197804-2-06.jpg
  • Acropolis, Parthenon: detail of a damaged column of the peristyle.  One vast gouge out of the column shaft.  Scaffolding visible beyond, around the cella..
    Parthenon_GRC197804-2-09.jpg
  • Acropolis, Propylaea, workmen doing repairs with scaffolding and tools.  One on the ground gestures to another on scaffolding by the Propylon.  Tourists wander about, some picking their way toward the Propylon.  Parthenon itself partially visible on the left.
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  • Acropolis, Propylaea, workmen doing repairs with scaffolding and tools.  One on the ground, one on the scaffold; tourists leaving the Acropolis around them; Parthenon and Erechtheum visible beyond.
    Athens_Propylaea_GRC197804-2-14.jpg
  • Acropolis, Propylaea, workmen doing repairs with scaffolding and tools.  One on the scaffold of the Propylon tightens a clamp around a column.
    Athens_Propylaea_GRC197804-2-13.jpg
  • Acropolis, Erechtheum, details of restoration work ongoing, seen from the lower side below the porch.  One corner caryatid visible, before they were replaced with replicas.
    Erectheum_GRC197804-2-15.jpg
  • Acropolis, Erechtheum, details of restoration work ongoing..
    Erectheum_GRC197804-2-17.jpg
  • Detail of the Parthenon perstyle columns showing how the column's verticality had been disjointed from earthquake and explosion.
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  • A man and woman walking along the Parthenon platform between columns and bypassing the scaffolding beginning to be erected preparatory to the Acropolis restoration program that began in 1978.
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  • View along the Parthenon side colonnade or perstyle showing the slight convex curve that gives visual life to the structure.  Tufts of grass in the interstices of the fitted blocks.   Heads of four tourists visible over the edge of the platform.  City of Athens and far away landscape just visible.
    Parthenon_GRC197804-10.jpg
  • Two workmen on a platform rig the next module of scaffolding preparatory to restoration of the Propylaea.  Damage to the columns, particularly to the seams between column drums, is evident.
    Parthenon_GRC197804-23.jpg
  • Two young women tourists study their guidebooks while above them a workman stands on a scaffold platform, smoking a cigarette, while talking with another workman installing the scaffolding, his bent arm just visible.
    Parthenon_GRC197804-27.jpg
  • Athens Acropolis Propylaea with scaffolding preparatory to restoration program in 1978.  One workman stands on a platform, leaning against a column, watching as a line of tourists, mostly women, exits the Acropolis site through the Propylaea columns.
    Athens_Propylaea_GRC197804-32.jpg
  • Telephoto view of a supervisor on a ladder between two Ionic columns of the Erechtheum points toward someone or something below on the left. City of Athens spreads out in the distance.
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  • Two of the exquisitely perfect Ionic columns of the Erechtheum on the Athens Acropolis, scaffolding behind them in preparation for restoring the temple.
    Erechtheum_GRC197808-02.jpg
  • Acropolis, Propylaea, Detail of saw leaning against the base of a Propylon column.  The column flutes are clearly delineated, as it the fact that it has shifted on the platform.
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