photographs of the Pergamon Altar
Frederick Leslie Kennet (1924 – 2012)
c.1950
Photographic prints
57 cm x 47 cm (all same size)
£1,500 (for the group)






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.