Combining art, history, and archaeology to powerful effect, this lecture overviews the artist’s process and motivations for drawing the Parthenon sculpture. It accompanies an exhibition of her drawings on display at the Lied Art Gallery, Creighton University. The lecture and exhibition provide a glimpse into a world once inhabited by the ancient Greeks. The drawings of the metopes of the iconic Parthenon in Athens are represented here as graphite and pastel on paper, a new method of recording the badly deteriorated sculptures developed by Katherine Schwab, and are complemented by a to-scale plaster cast of a metope. These images invite the viewer into a world depicting epic battles and ancient gods and heroes as imagined by Pheidias and his fellow sculptors, and now reimagined in our time.
