ARTH 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Triglyph, Entablature, Portico
4 Oct 2016
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Ancient greece has 3 periods: archaic, classical. We have the privilege that most of the writing survived: hellenistic. The temple of poseidon: greek architecture wasn"t torn down because they simply left. 3 of greek architecture: pediment-the part on top, entablature- the header, columns, post and lintel style. Used just t keep rain off head. Three types of decorative style called the orders : doric. Periapical temple: need to know what a naos is, the room where the god statue was. Larger temples named on number of columns: hex style, octastyle. Painted bright to stand out in the sun. Parthenon: the posterchild for greek architecture, a lot of structure and sculptures removed. British not returning the goods: peripheral temple, had a statue of athena in it, helps us understand greek thinking. They put a slight bend in the base to trick the eye to make you think it was perfectly straight.
