The sculptures of the Pantheon were often seen as the best examples of the 'high classical style' Greek art. They consisted of one long frieze, several square panels and two huge triangular compositions which were taken from the main temple of the goddess Athene in Athens built c550 BCE. However the Pantheon marbles did not arrive in the West until the first half of the nineteenth Century and although ancient sculpture was central to the …
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