1 / 9

Ancient Greece: Architecture and Sculpture

Ancient Greece: Architecture and Sculpture.

makani
Download Presentation

Ancient Greece: Architecture and Sculpture

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Ancient Greece:Architecture and Sculpture The Greeks considered their temples dwelling places for the gods. The highest goal for the Greeks was appeasing the gods in hopes that the gods would bestow rewards on them. Oracles and omens were an important part of their religious practices. The marble temples were painted brightly in rich colors, but time has worn off the original colors.

  2. Greek buildings utilized the Post-and-Lintel system. Lintel Post

  3. Parts of a Greek Temple Pediment Lintel Platform

  4. Doric Order Iktinos, Kallikrates, and Karpion. The Parthenon (view from the west), Akropolis, Athens. 448 - 432 BCE.

  5. Ionic Order Kallikrates, Temple of Athena Nike, Acropolis, Athens, c. 421 - 405 BCE.

  6. Corinthian Order Temple of Olympian Zeus Athens, Greece c. 500 BCE

  7. Porch of the Maidens, the Erechtheum, Akropolis, Athens. 421 - 405 BC. Caryatid = a sculptured female figure used as an architectural support

  8. Find a piece of architecture located somewhere in North Carolina that uses the Greek Post-and-Lintel Temple Structure. You must find: A picture of the building Name of building Date built Location *Identify which order/or combination of orders have been usedand explain which characteristics cause you to think so.

  9. The Wilkes Heritage Museum The original courthouse was built in 1902 Wilkesboro, NC Ionic Order- Columns have a base, scrolled capital, and continuous frieze

More Related