Nashville’s iconic Athena Parthenos is celebrating her 35th birthday! Meet the artist, champions, and curators behind the ...

That changed May 20, 1990, when the 42-foot-tall Athena Parthenos statue was unveiled to a crowd of thousands. Eight years in the making, the statue was created by Alan LeQuire, a Nashville ...

Money continued to be raised in the years following and in 2002, the statue was completed with gilding and painting to more closely resemble the original Athena Parthenos in Greece. Diana Leyva ...

If so, you’re in luck. In this video, the Metropolitan Museum of Art takes viewers behind the scenes of the installation of Athena Parthenos, an ancient Greek sculpture from around 170 B.C. The ...

Sculptor Alan LeQuire is no stranger to making large-scale art: His re-creation of Athena Parthenos in Centennial Park's Parthenon and the Musica statue at the Music Row Roundabout are two of the ...

It was designed to house a huge statue of Athena Parthenos ( 26 cubits tall, or just over 36 feet in height) which Phidias sculpted in ivory and gold. Indeed, the statue of Athena wore enough ...