Temple of Hera II
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460 BCE
Paestum, Italy
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Example of Doric architecture: heavy entablature, colonnades almost equal has alternating metopes and triglyphs
2 rows of colums support a smaller set of colums in a way to make tapering seem continuous |
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Siphnian Treasury
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525 BCE
Delphi
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Ionic-style architecture note caryatids as front colums and continous frieze of Gigantomachy (Giants vs. Gods)
Porch supported by caryatids
2 lions pull the chariot of Themis and tear apart a giant
introduced a variety of poses for figures, made great strides in depicting the human body in naturalistic motion |
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Exekias Athenian Black-Figure
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540-530 BCE
Ceramic 61 cm
Athenian Black-figure neck amphora
Achilles and Ajax playing a game
Exekias also signed his work
wealth of detail focuses on the warrior's cloaks |
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Such is the variety of new materials, techniques and styles introduced from eastern lands to Greece during the 8th and 7th c. BC
(tripods with griffins) |
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6th 7th cent, once merely a place of refuge in times of trouble, city came to represent a community and an identity |
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nnucleus of the building – its very reason for existing – cella or naos – housed the gods image
Interior columns lined the cella walls
· Peristyle – colonnade – surrounds cella and porches |
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building rests on stylobate, approached by 3 steps – stereobate
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Consists of a shaft, marked by vertical groves |
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echinus and a square tablet – abacus |
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all the horizontal elements that rest on the column |
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· row of stone block directly supported by the columns. This supports the pediment – roof elements |
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· made up of alternating triple – grooved triglyphs and smooth or sculpted metopes |
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| a rectangular architectural element that fills the space between two triglyphs in a doric frieze |
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| an architectural term for the vertically channeled tablets of the doric frieze, so called because of the angular channels in them, two perfect and one divided |
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ornate base maybe to protect the bottom from rain
· More slender
· Capital has a double scroll – volute below the abacus
· Above the architrave, the frieze is continuous- not broken up into triglyphs and metopes
· Double colonnade around perimeter |
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widespread animal motifs used in 7th century BCE |
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application of a convex curve to the surface of the columns for aesthetic purposes |
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Black-Figure vase painting |
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· Figures painted using slip (clay slurry)
· Incised with tools to create details
· (face, texture of lion skin, etc.)
· Fired in two steps:
· oxidizing (open vent) atmosphere to bring out red
· reducing (closed vent) atmosphere to bring out black |
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Sophilos (Dinos)-
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600-570 BCE
Athens
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Wedding of Peleus and Thetis |
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Monumental entrance to Acropolis, 437-432 BCE |
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the real Temple of Athena, 421-405 BCE
Ionic style, Karyatid porch (south) |
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Temple of Athena Nike (Victory) |
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427-424 BCE
Sculpture from balustrade of temple = Nike (42” ht.) |
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Temple of Artemis, Ephesu
- Sculpture on the temple is confined to the pediment, a triangle between the ceiling and the roof that serves as a screen to protect the wooden rafters behind it from moisture
- Sculpture undercut the figures on the relief so strongly that they are nearly detached from the background
- The figure in the center of the pediment representds medusa – served to represent the power of divinity and dominance over nature
- The sculpture fused two separate moments from a single story to bring the story to life – synoptic narrative
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