ARTH 1380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Siphnian Treasury, Doric Order, Peripteros
26 Jul 2016
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Each of the city is a nation of itself because it"s a direct democracy. They believe in a same god and goddesses, which made them polytheistic. In term of architecture, they built their special building to store their religious treasure. To connect the gods to reenact these plays. The stage is at the bottom of the ground. Seatings were arrange at a semi circular shape. The purpose of it was to compete in the games. The core characteristic was all about the arrangement of the rows of columns in the building. The ionic is more geometric because the style is simple. The door columns are more narrow from the top at the doric. No base at the columns for the doric; base and scroll attach to the columns at the ionic. The doric divided the freeze to put a sculpture decoration but the ionic"s freeze is more open. The field determine the frame of the sculpture.
