Pheidias, general overseer of the Parthenon's sculptural programme under Pericles; the individual carvers of specific pediment figures, metopes and frieze blocks are not named in any surviving source

The Parthenon Sculptures in the British Museum

c. 447-432 BC, as part of the Parthenon's building programme; the frieze is usually dated to the earlier part of that range, c. 442-438 BC, and the pediment sculptures to the final years, 438-432 BC - Pentelic marble, quarried from Mount Pentelicus northeast of Athens; the pediment figures were carved fully in the round, the metopes in high relief, and the frieze in continuous low relief