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the architecture's storytelling strip, narrating myths to anyone willing to crane their neck.
means A frieze is a broad horizontal band of decoration — often sculpted or painted — running along the upper part of a wall or building, between the architrave and the cornice in classical architecture.
from From French 'frise', borrowed from Medieval Latin 'frisium' or 'frigium', meaning embroidered cloth or fringe. There's an old, tempting theory linking it to 'Phrygium opus' — 'Phrygian work,' the embroidery of ancient Phrygia famed for golden needlework — but this connection is uncertain and possibly folk reasoning. Worth noting: the woolen cloth called 'frieze' (a coarse, napped fabric) is a separate word, likely from the place-name Frisia. The architectural frieze and the fabric frieze are easily confused cousins-by-spelling, not by blood.
- parthenon scandal
- its frieze sits in London, not Athens
- running length
- the Parthenon's stretched roughly 160 meters around
- word twins
- unrelated to frieze the fuzzy fabric
- art fair
- Frieze London lends its name to galleries
- three-part order
- sits between architrave and cornice up top
the parthenon frieze — 442-432 bce marble sculpture depicting the panathenaic procession on the acropolis in athens
the bayeux tapestry — 11th century 70-meter narrative frieze depicting william the conqueror's invasion of england in 1066
the ara pacis augustae — 13 bce marble altar in rome with elaborate relief friezes commissioned by emperor augustus