ARTH 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fascist Architecture, Doric Order, Triglyph
27 Nov 2017
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Pediment= triangular element at the top front of the temple. Frieze = (cid:862)trigl(cid:455)ph(cid:863) i(cid:374) the (cid:373)iddle/i(cid:374)side/(cid:272)eiling of the inside of the building. Fluted columns = a series of channels are carved through the columns. Entacus = swelling of the column at bottom and thinner at the top. *most of the greek temples are made with series of cylindrical sections, not just one stone, precisely calibrated. Protagoras (lived at the time of the parthenon)- (cid:862)(cid:373)a(cid:374) is the (cid:373)easure of all thi(cid:374)g(cid:863) Ionic order: proportioned like a matron (married woman): elegant, taller, slimmer complicated base, 2 curling volumes (made to look like the curling strands of hair) on the top of the columns. Temple of athena nike, 427-424 bce, akropolis, athens (ionic order) Instead of columns, there are statues of maidens (porch of maidens) enslaved women, forced to bear the weight of the temple (deeply disturbing). Colu(cid:373)(cid:374)s do(cid:374)"t go all the (cid:449)a(cid:455) arou(cid:374)d the temple.
