photographs of the Pergamon Altar,
depicting the Gigantomachy (the battle between the Giants and the Olympian gods)
Frederick Leslie Kenett (1924 – 2012)
c.1950s
Photographic prints
printed on white fine lustre paper,
(Print) 50.8 cm (20 in.) x 40.6 cm (16 in.)
(Frame) 57 cm x 47 cm
£2, 650 (each)
The Hellenistic Pergamon Altar is exhibited at the Pergamonmuseum, part of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. It was built during the reign of King Eumenes II (197–156 B.C.E.) in the city Pergamon which today is a part of Turkey. This image is from a section that depicts the Gigantomachy – the battle between the Giants and the Olympian gods for the supremacy of the cosmos.