http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_order
These are the 3 orders of Architecture!
From top to bottom: Doric
Ionic
Corinthian
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Greek History!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_order
These are the 3 orders of Architecture!
From top to bottom: Doric
Ionic
Corinthian
THE PARTHENON!
The Parthenon was everything to the Greeks!
It was located at the highest point in Athens called the Acropolis. It celebrated Athena Parthenos.
It was built in th classical period and its style of architecture was dorky doric. :)
It was composed of 70,000 unique marble peices. Can you imagine having to put all of that together?!
The dimensions were 101ft x 228ft! Its Columns were 33 ft tall and on the inside was a 40 ft statue of Athena draped in gold! How awesome is that! There was no straight lines at all in the Parthenon and it was perfectly flat, it actually was bowing so it gace the illusion of being perfectly flat. It was made up of post and lintel construction.
Caryachids!
Caryachids are Female figures used to support architecture rather than columns.
The name of this image is the porch of the maidens.
The porch of the maidens is located in the Erechtheum.
Nike of Somathrace
The Nike of Samothrace, also known as the Winged Victory. In this picture she is shown landing on the bow of a ship. She is said to being calling out Victory. The negative space around this statue is the most important part.
3 Goddesses
These 3 Goddesses were perch on the East Pediment of the Parthenon
They were LARGER THAN LIFE! Thats incredidble!
The 3 Goddesses, along with other statues, were there to commemorate the birth of Athena.
The Artist draped wet cloth on the models to get a realistic look.
Kritios boy
Greek History!
This is the Statue of a Youth
He represents Apollo or an idealize athlete
He has what the call an "archaic smile" :)
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