Athena Nike unloosing her sandal
This most exquisite illustration from the parapet of the Athena
Nike's Temple expresses the new plastic tendencies of the end of the 5th
century BCE.
The movement full of nobility of Victory raises in the chiton and
in the mantle a profusion of pleats richly elaborated.
415-410 BCE
Athens, Acropolis Museum
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