Temple of Athene Nike. Venus Victrix—Wingless Victory (c. 1850s–60s): Art, History and Details

Temple of Athene Nike. Venus Victrix—Wingless Victory (c. 1850s–60s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Dimitrios Constantin (Greek, 1820–1900).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: Temple of Athene Nike. Venus Victrix—Wingless Victory
• Date: c. 1850s–60s
• Creator attribution: Dimitrios Constantin (Greek, 1820–1900)
• Culture: Greece, 19th century
• Type: Photograph
• Technique: albumen print from collodion negative
• Dimensions: Image: 28.1 x 38.2 cm (11 1/16 x 15 1/16 in.); Paper: 28.1 x 38.2 cm (11 1/16 x 15 1/16 in.); Mounted: 47 x 61.8 cm (18 1/2 x 24 5/16 in.)
• Collection: PH - Misc. 19th Century
• Department: Photography
• Accession number: 2022.17

A detail from the museum

Dimitrios Constantine, who opened a studio in 1858, was probably the second professional photographer in Greece.

Collection credit

Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.