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Greek Architecture
Art History I - Professor Holland Cazenovia College
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Art History
10/13/2011

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Definition
•Three parts
•Platform
•Colonnade
•Superstructure -- Entablature
•Orders (named after regions but used all over)
•Doric -- mainland
•Ionic -- Islands
•Corinthian
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Definition

Temple of Hera I (Basilica)

Paestum, Italy

ca. 550 BCE
Plan

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Definition

West pediment from the Temple of Artemis

Corfu, Greece

Ca 600-580 BCE, Limestone

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Definition

Temple of Aphaia

Aegina, Greece

ca 500-490 BCE

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Definition

West pediment of the Temple of Aphaia

Aegina, Greece

ca 500-490 BCE

Marble, 58

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Definition
Archer from temple of Alphia
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Definition

Kresilas, Pericles

Roman copy of bronze herm

(original ca. 429 6)

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Definition

Model of the Acropolis

Athens, Greece

1. Parthenon

2. Propylaia

3. Erechteheion

4. Temple of Athena Nike

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Definition
Propylaia
Unfinished due to the Peloponnesian War (Athens and Sparta)
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Definition

Iktinos and Kallikrates, Parthenon

the Temple of Athena Parthenos

Acropolis, Athens, Greece

447-438 BCE

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Helios and his horses, and Dionysos (Herakles?) from the east pediment (Birth of Athena), Parthenon, Acropolis

Athens, Greece

438-432 BCE, Marble, 43

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Three goddesses (Hestia, Dione, and Aphrodite?), east pediment Parthenon (birth of Athena), Acropolis, Athens, Greece

ca 438-432 BCE, marble, 45

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Erechtheion, Parthenon, Acropolis

Athens, Greece

ca 421-405 BCE

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Definition

Reconstructed west front of the Altar of Zeus

from Pergamon, Turkey

ca 175 BCE

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Definition

Athena battling Alkyoneos

detail of gigantomachy frieze, Altar of Zeus, Pergamon, Turkey, marble, 76