Parthenon on Acropolis, reconstruction

Parthenon

1.       More-naturalistic – visual

2.       Even columns

3.       Lighter

4.       Capitals more streamlined

5.       No central columns – 1 main room

6.       X:2x+1 proportion

7.       9:4 ratio throughout

Parthenon Facade

a.       Gift to Athena

b.      Victory monument to Marathon and Salamis over Persian Wars

Parthenon Plan

1.       No central columns – 1 main room

2.       X:2x+1 proportion

3.       9:4 ratio throughout

Parthenon Curvature Drawing

                                                               i.      Deviation from straight line and right angles

                                                             ii.      Curvature (curved all straight lines)

1.       Columns lean, base walls

                                                            iii.      Inclination – learning, columns in, entablature out

Parthenon Corner

                                                               i.      Spacing – columns closet at columns

                                                             ii.      Thickening – corner columns thicker (learning 2 ways at once)

                                                            iii.      Why? – life – more naturalistic? – to humanize it

Parthenon Cutaway

Columns in treasury room

  Frieze around cella

  (+Doric in triglyph and metape)

Parthenon facade with frieze showing

a.       Mixed Doric and Ionic

b.      Refinement throughout

c.       Number ratio throughout

d.      All marbles

e.      Largest

f.        Most richly built and decorated

Parthenon frieze, 3 deities

 Face: Smooth brow and nose, full mouth

Contrapposto

Wet drapery

Erechtheion View

 Not symmetrical

 Not even

 Hole in roof for Poseidon’s spear

 Caryatids