CLASSICS 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Aeolic Order, Architrave, Doric Order
28 Feb 2019
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[archaic period: 600-480 bc, monumental architecture continues, beginnings of athenian dominance, developments in sculpture and vase paintings, first stone temples. [doric order: mostly in asia minor and the costal area of north of smyrna, capitals: volutes and palmettes. Four main elements: base, column, architrave, roof/cornice. Bc: one of earliest stone temples in greece, ashlar masonry, peristyle surrounding temple- columns made of wood, pilasters on walls. Interior columns to support roof: olympia, temple of hera, 590 bc, 6x18 peristyle, upper elements made of mudbrick and timber, lower elements made of ashlar masonry. Temple of apollo: architrave supported by large, close together capitals. Thermon: temple of apollo, painted terracotta metopes, perseus and medusa myth, possibly work of corintian vase painters. Corcyra: temple of artemis c. 580 bc, west pediment decoration, center: medusa and her children flanked by panthers, corners- battle of gods and giants, most of the temple did not survive. First temple to have pediment carved from stone rather than terracotta.
