altar of Zeus

…focus, while the altar of Pergamum and the Ara Pacis (Augustan Altar of Peace) in Rome are evidences of the open-air religious observances of the classical world. The atrium of early Christian architecture and the cloister were isolated areas for prayer.

…Athena Nicephorus; and the great altar of Zeus with its richly decorated frieze, a masterpiece of Hellenistic art. A part of the altar and its surviving reliefs, restored and mounted, now stands in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.

…from its main attraction, the altar of Zeus from Pergamon (Pergamum [in present-day Turkey]). Considered a masterpiece of the Hellenistic Age, this ancient Greek structure was shipped to Berlin in 1910, and the museum was built, in part, to house it. The Pergamonmuseum also contains other large archaeological structures, including…

…the great reliefs from the altar of Zeus, now in Berlin, and copies of dedicatory statues showing defeated Gauls. These, like the well-known Winged Victory of Samothrace, are masterful displays of vigorous action and emotion—triumph, fury, despair—and the effect is achieved by exaggeration of anatomical detail and features and by…