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Golden Age of Athens. 1. Architecture. Three architectural orders Doric Ionic Corinthian Seeking harmony and balance Great influence in later architectural forms: Renaissance, Greek Revival (Neoclassic). 1. Architecture: Doric order. 1. Architecture: Doric order. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Golden Age of Athens1. ArchitectureThree architectural ordersDoricIonicCorinthian
Seeking harmony and balance
Great influence in later architectural forms: Renaissance, Greek Revival (Neoclassic)
1. Architecture: Doric order
1. Architecture: Doric order
1. Architecture: Doric orderSummary of features:
Simple capitolsWide, solid columnsDivided frieze (into metopes and triglyphs)2. Architecture: Ionic order
2. Architecture: Ionic order
2. Architecture: Ionic orderSummary of features:
More slender columnsCapitol in the shape of a voluteUndivided frieze 3. Architecture: Corinthian order
3. Architecture: Corinthian order
3. Architecture: Corinthian orderSummary of features:
Acanthus leaves in capitolUndivided friezeWhich is which?
Ionic Corinthian Doric
Harmony vs. dynamism
American Neoclassical Architecture
4. Athens and the AcropolisAthens reemerges from the Persian wars as a ruling power.The treasury of the Delian league is transferred to Athens.Pericles starts the reconstruction of the Acropolis (430-420 BCE).
4. The Acropolis today
4. The Acropolis (reconstruction)
5. The Propylea
6. Temple of Athena Nike
7. Statue of Athena Promachos
7. The Erechtheion
Porch of the Maidens
8. The Parthenon
228. The Parthenon
239. Statue of Anthena Parthenos
2410. Parthenon: Pediment
2511. Parthenon: Frieze (Panathenaic procession)
2611. Parthenon: Frieze (Panathenaic procession)
2712. The Parthenons significancePublic building projectAthena as protector of AthensPolitical ideology regarding the barbaroi : iconographyPolitical ideology: Panathenaic festival and the community: civic pride/identityArtistic arete : best architects (Ictinus, Callicrates and Mnesicles) and sculptor (Phidias)13. SculptureArchaic Style (6th century)Severe Style (early 5th century)High Classical Style (5th century)Fourth Century Style(4th century)Hellenistic(3rd- 2nd centuries)13. Archaic Style (6th century)
13. Archaic Style (6th century)RigidityFrontalitySymmetryEgyptian influenceInterest in human bodyNo motionArchaic smileKouros, kore
14. Severe Style (early 5th century)
14. Severe Style (early 5th century)Interest in human bodyContrappostoMore relaxed postureNo motion
15. High Classical Style (5th century)
15. High Classical Style (5th century)Depiction of the perfect human bodyCanon of proportionsRestrained motionContrappostoIncipient curveDoryphoros (450-440 BCE, by Polykleitos)
15. High Classical Style (5th century)
Pediment of the Parthenon ( 448-442 BCE ) by Phidias
Diskobolos (460-450 BCE) by Myron
15. High Classical Style (5th century)
16. Athens: theater of Dionysius
17. Greek theater
Dionysia: competition in Athens3 tragedies and one satyr-playChorus: group who dances and sings
17. Greek theater
Actors: Only 3 or 4.Actors: Males wearing masks
17. Greek theaterTragedy:Theme: Mortals cannot escape pain and sorrowObjective:To arouse pity and horrorCathartic (purging) effectThemes: legends of ancient dynastiesOriginality lies in the treatment not in the plot
17. Greek theaterMain Athenian dramatists:
AeschylusPersians, OresteiaSophoclesAntigone, OedipusEuripidesMedeaAristophanesLysistrata (comedy)
18. Athens and Sparta in 435
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