wonders of sculpture e powerful modelling the delicacy andfinish of the chiselling combine to make them themasterpiece the unattainable ideal of the art ofbas relief the sculptures of the great external frieze werecalled metopes because they occupied the spacesbetween the architectural ornaments called tri glyphs which surmounted the entablature of thecolonnade the metopes were square niches whichformed a kind of frame for the subject representedthey were painted in antique red rosso anticoand the intervening triglyphs were blue as theseniches were on the one hand not deep e 2aj6cp0.jpg from ofbas View Photo