Humanities-Greek Architecture
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Greek temple Architecture:
Known for its _____, harmony, and classic simplicity - symmetry
- The first temples were made of mud, brick, and wood. Later, ____ came into use.
- stone
- The construction of the greek architecture was?
- Post and Lintel
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Elements:
-___ pointed flutes on a wide column (much thicker at the base)
-3 steps
-____with square _____ and _____
-Plain, single branded architrave
-Frieze with alternating _____ and painted or sculptured _____ -
Doric Order (Earliest)
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-Capital, abacus, echinus
-tryglyphs, metopes -
Doric Illustrations:
-The temple of _____(the Basilica) in Paestum, Italy (c. 550 B.C.)
-No mestopes, tryglyphs, pediments, or cornice -
Hera I -
Standard Doric Style:
-___ columns on the end
-___ on the side - 6, 14
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Doric Illustrations:
-Temple of _____(Tiemple of Poseidon) in Paestom, Italy c. 460 B.C.
-It has a ____ and ____ (not on Hera I) -
Hera II
-pediment, cornice - ____: a group of temples high atop a hill in Athens
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-Acropolis -
-The ____: the largest temple of the grouping (doric).
-Designed by _____ and _______.
-Ottman Empire stored bombs=blew up ____
-Golden Mean: 1-1.618
-Flaws: middle goes up (steps and pediments)
-Humanists: built imperfections t -
-Partheon, Ictinus, Kallicrates
-one wall
-Centaur
-Phidias -
Ionic Order:
-___ flutes seperated by thin vertical bands (squared off)
-Uniform thinkness (shaft)
-Tripartile Architrave has 3 thin bands
-Continuos ____ of painting and sculpture -
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-frieze - The temple of ____ ____ (Ionic Order) also known as the Temple of Wingless Victory
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Athena Nike - Hecate, Hephaestus, Demeter, Kore in a ____ from the Temple of Athena Nike
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frieze -
The Erechthium (named for person who built it)
-Ionic Order
-Posidon and Athena fought for being the idol of Athens
-Athena won because she offered olive trees
-Posidon offered horses
-Place most _____
-Building is ____: Ath -
-sacred
-triparte -
The Porch of Maidens with Caryatids(shafts)
-Deintle ___, which is dents in archatrite
-Plienth: holds up a porch
*Only nonform order in ____ -
Greece -
The Propylaea (fortified gateway)-Doric
-Designed by _____ was left unfinishe
-Athena Nike on right hand side of Acropulius -
-Mnesicles -
Classic Greek Sculpture:
-Posedion(or maybe___)
-Idealized (humanistic)
-Mathmatical proportion=rational thinkers -
Zeus -
Artemis (Goddess of hunting, moon, and sister of ____)
-Apollo and Artemis were Ying and Yang
-Attributed to ______ -
-Apollo
-Praxiteles -
Aphrodite (Goddess of ___)
-attributed to Praxiteles -
-love -
Hermes(adult)and Dionysos (child)
-attributed to ______ - -Praxiteles
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The Laoccon Group
-During the Trojan War, Laoccon, Trojan ____ to Apollo, told Trojeans to not accept Greek horse, but Posiden and Athena sent two serpents to prevent him from finding Greeks in the wooden horse after putting a spear in the side of i -
priest - Battle of the Greeks and ____
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Persians - Partheon Metope
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Lapith and Centaur - Partheon Pediment Sculpture
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The Three Goddesses
-Clothed female figures