Cleveland Museum of Art

Temple of Athene Nike. Venus Victrix—Wingless Victory

Dimitrios Constantin

Date

c. 1850s–60s

Medium

albumen print from collodion negative

Culture

Greece, 19th century

Department

Photography

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Here we see a monument of ancient Greece through the eyes of a nineteenth-century Greek. This temple on the Acropolis in Athens, completed around 420 BC, was dedicated to the goddesses Athena and Nike, both of whom represented being victorious in war. Dimitrios Constantine, who opened a studio in 1858, was probably the second professional photographer in Greece.

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