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The Acropolis through time
2013 - The Parthenon on top of the Acropolis, Athens.
(c) 2013 - A.Savin, Wikimedia Commons.
1917 - Ernst Carl Eugen Koerner
1885 - Robert Weir Allan
1872 - Old photograph. The Frankish Tower is still standing. It was demolished in 1874.
c.1865 - Old photograph
c.1865 - Old photograph by Dimitrios Konstantinou
1863 - Rudolf Müller
1853-54 - Old photograph by James Robertson
1852 - Edward Lear
1851 - Old photograph by Alfred Nicolas Normand
1849 - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
1845 - Engraving by A.H.Payne
1838 - James Skene. A mosque is visible inside the Parthenon
1836 (possibly before) - William Page
1832 - Drawing by J. D. Harding, engraved by J. Cousen
1687 - Giacomo Vernada. The Parthenon is bombed by the Venetians. The roof is blown out. The minaret is still standing.
1685 - Plan of Athens by Spon
1682 - Plan of Athens by Wheler. The Parthenon is called the "Temple of Minerva" but it is clearly a mosque at the time.
1676 - Babin. The Parthenon is called the "Great Mosque"
1674 - Jacques Carrey. The minaret of the mosque is visible behind the Parthenon.
1674 - Jacques Carrey
1436 - Cyriacus of Ancona. First surviving representation of the Parthenon. This is before the Ottoman invasion of 1458: the Parthenon is a Christian church.
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