"metope" is used of the intervals between dentils as well as of those between triglyphs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference

The new museum, in fact, tried to recreate the exact same vantage points from ground to frieze, metope and panel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Night (not) in the Parthenon Museum 2] Reference

In the same way the somewhat rigid laws of composition of pediment metope and frieze compelled the Greek artist to think out schemes suitable to those forms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

In case of the metope, the square field is filled with two or three figures balanced about a central line, a scheme self-contained and harmonious, which may be compared to a geometrical diagram, and carries simplicity to the farthest point.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

The next metope (11) is a fine specimen of sculpture.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to See the British Museum in Four Visits] Reference

The fourteenth metope (14) represents an Athenian thrown by.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to See the British Museum in Four Visits] Reference

A vigorous action is represented upon the sixth metope (6), where an.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to See the British Museum in Four Visits] Reference

It is supposed that the following metope (13) represents the Centaur.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to See the British Museum in Four Visits] Reference

The second metope (2) also represents an Athenian subduing a Centaur.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to See the British Museum in Four Visits] Reference

On the metope are represented the deeds of Theseus in beautiful reliefs.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Journey Round the World] Reference

There is also a metope called "metope with Dancing Girls" on display in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

The third metope (3) shows an Athenian under very disadvantageous circumstances.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to See the British Museum in Four Visits] Reference

MUTULES (best seen in the frontispiece), one over each triglyph and each metope.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Greek Art] Reference

Your hands would fit much better in a metope of the Elgin Marbles, than in a wash-tub, or.    From Wordnik.com.  [At the Mercy of Tiberius] Reference

Each metope contains two figures, grouped in various attitudes; sometimes the Lapithæ, sometimes the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3)] Reference

The first metope to which the visitor will, in natural order, direct his attention, is that marked 1.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to See the British Museum in Four Visits] Reference

A victorious Centaur holding forth a mantle of lion's skin, is the central figure of the next metope (12).    From Wordnik.com.  [How to See the British Museum in Four Visits] Reference

Matters have arrived at a desperate pitch with the combatants represented on the tenth metope (10), where the.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to See the British Museum in Four Visits] Reference

The material of the metope, as of the whole temple, is a local poros, and the work is executed in high relief.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Greek Art] Reference

The fifth metope (5) is also much mutilated; but here both figures were evidently represented mutually confident of victory.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to See the British Museum in Four Visits] Reference

The last, or sixteenth metope (16), is supposed to have been executed by the same inferior hand as that employed upon the fifteenth.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to See the British Museum in Four Visits] Reference

The seventh metope (7) is much mutilated; but the figure of an Athenian thrown, and a Centaur trampling upon him, are clearly discernible.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to See the British Museum in Four Visits] Reference

Gradually the background is cut down, the space restricted, the figure enlarged until it fills its frame as a metope of the Parthenon is filled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects] Reference

Transporting ourselves now from the eastern to the western confines of Greek civilization, we may take a look at a sculptured metope from Selinus in Sicily (Fig. 84).    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Greek Art] Reference

There in a mighty heap lie column and capital, metope and cornice; and the mind is lost in wonder at the power that raised these giant structures, and the power that overthrew them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3] Reference

The fourth metope (4) has been so mutilated that the figure of the Athenian, which was once upon it, is wholly effaced, and the Centaur has the head, part of two legs, and both arms, wanting.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to See the British Museum in Four Visits] Reference

The same distortion occurs in a second metope of this same temple, representing Heracles carrying off two prankish dwarfs who had tried to annoy him, and is in fact common in early Greek work.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Greek Art] Reference

The fifteenth metope (15) represents a Centaur holding an Athenian; while the Athenian has revenged himself by planting that decisive kind of blow known in pugilistic circles as "a bruiser" upon the Centaur's cheek.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to See the British Museum in Four Visits] Reference

That city was founded, according to our best ancient authority, about the year 629 B.C., and the temple from which our metope is taken is certainly one of the oldest, if not the oldest, of the many temples of the place.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Greek Art] Reference

Do not conceive of Shakespeare's plays as marble column, pediment, frieze, metope, built into a Parthenon, but conceive of each play as a Parthenon; for I think it certain each one might have stood solitary on cape or hill, as those old Greeks built temples to their tutelar deities.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hero and Some Other Folks] Reference

South metope 1 and north metope 32, two of the finest that ever there were, still rot on the Parthenon as I speak. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Jousting over the Parthenon Marbles] Reference

The next metope (9) (or rather a cast from the metope in the Louvre at.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to See the British Museum in Four Visits] Reference

Disdar when "a metope was lowered, and the adjacent masonry scattered its white fragments with thundering noise among the ruins" ( 'Travels in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1] Reference

Schliemann, Dr., and the metope of Ilium, 73.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture] Reference