Ancient Greek architecture
Ancient Greek architecture came from the Greek-speaking people (Hellenic people) whose culture flourished on the Greek mainland, the Peloponnese, the Aegean Islands, and in colonies in Anatolia and Italy for a period from about 900 BC until the 1st century AD, with the earliest remaining architectural works dating from around 600 BC.
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- enA sectioned nautilus shell. These shells may have provided inspiration for voluted Ionic capitals.
- enAbove: Modern model of ancient Olympia with the Temple of Zeus at the centre
- enArchaic metope: Perseus and Medusa, Temple C at Selinunte.
- enAt the Temple of Aphaia, the hypostyle columns rise in two tiers, to a height greater than the walls, to support a roof without struts.
- enBlack figure Amphora, Atalante painter , shows proportion and style that are hallmarks of ancient Greek art
- enCorner capital with a diagonal volute, showing also details of the fluting separated by fillets.
- enDiagram showing the optical corrections made by the architects of the Parthenon
- enErechtheion: masonry, door, stone lintels, coffered ceiling panels
- enFrieze of stylised alternating palms and reeds, and a cornice decorated with "egg and dart" moulding.
- enHellenistic frieze: Battle of Gods and Titans, the Pergamon Altar.
- enHigh Classical frieze: Panathenaic Ritual, Parthenon, Athens
- enIonic caryatid from the Erechtheion
- enPebble mosaic floor of a house at Olynthos, depicting Bellerophon
- enPlan of the House of Colline, 2nd century BC
- enPorta Rosa, a street Velia, Italy
- enRight: Recreation of the colossal statue of Athena, once housed in the Parthenon, with sculptor Alan LeQuire
- enSevere Classical metope: Labours of Hercules, Temple of Zeus, Olympus
- enTemple of Hephaestos, fluted Doric columns with abacuses supporting double beams of the architrave
- enThe Acropolis, Athens, is high above the city on a natural prominence.
- enThe Bouleuterion, at Priene
- enThe House of Masks
- enThe House of Masks, Delos, 3rd century BC
- enThe Islands of the Aegean from Cape Sounion
- enThe Kritios Boy, , typifies the tradition of free-standing figures
- enThe Palaestra at Olympia, used for boxing and wrestling
- enThe Parthenon, shows the common structural features of Ancient Greek architecture: crepidoma, columns, entablature, pediment.
- enThe Stadium at Epidauros
- enThe Theatre and Temple of Apollo in mountainous country at Delphi
- enThe Theatre of Dionysus, Athens
- enThe altar of Hiero II at Syracuse
- enThe entablature showing the architrave, frieze with triglyphs and metopes and the overhanging cornice
- enThe growth of the nautilus corresponds to the Golden Mean
- enThe lion's head gargoyle is fixed to a revetment on which elements of a formal frieze have been painted.
- enThe main lines of the Parthenon are all curved.
- enThe mosaic floor of a house at Delos
- enThe reconstructed Stoa of Attalos, the Agora, Athens
- enThe rugged indented coastline at Rhamnous, Attica
- enThe tall capital combines both semi-naturalistic leaves and highly stylised tendrils forming volutes.
- enThe tapered fluted columns, constructed in drums, rest directly on the stylobate.
- enThis Archaic gorgon's head antefix has been cast in a mould, fired and painted.
- enTop: The Parthenon ; Centre: The Erechtheion ; Bottom: Illustration of Doric , Ionic and Corinthian columns
- enabove: Capital of the Corinthian Order showing foliate decoration and vertical volutes.
- enabove: Capital of the Ionic order showing volutes and ornamented echinus
- enleft: Architectural elements of the Doric order showing simple curved echinus of capital
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- enAncient Greek architecture came from the Greek-speaking people (Hellenic people) whose culture flourished on the Greek mainland, the Peloponnese, the Aegean Islands, and in colonies in Anatolia and Italy for a period from about 900 BC until the 1st century AD, with the earliest remaining architectural works dating from around 600 BC.
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- enThe Greek mainland, the Peloponnese, the Aegean Islands, Anatolia, and in colonies
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- enAncient Greek architecture came from the Greek-speaking people (Hellenic people) whose culture flourished on the Greek mainland, the Peloponnese, the Aegean Islands, and in colonies in Anatolia and Italy for a period from about 900 BC until the 1st century AD, with the earliest remaining architectural works dating from around 600 BC. Ancient Greek architecture is best known from its temples, many of which are found throughout the region, with the Parthenon regarded, now as in ancient times, as the prime example. Most remains are very incomplete ruins, but a number survive substantially intact, mostly outside modern Greece. The second important type of building that survives all over the Hellenic world is the open-air theatre, with the earliest dating from around 525–480 BC. Other architectural forms that are still in evidence are the processional gateway (propylon), the public square (agora) surrounded by storied colonnade (stoa), the town council building (bouleuterion), the public monument, the monumental tomb (mausoleum) and the stadium. Ancient Greek architecture is distinguished by its highly formalised characteristics, both of structure and decoration. This is particularly so in the case of temples where each building appears to have been conceived as a sculptural entity within the landscape, most often raised on high ground so that the elegance of its proportions and the effects of light on its surfaces might be viewed from all angles. Nikolaus Pevsner refers to "the plastic shape of the [Greek] temple [...] placed before us with a physical presence more intense, more alive than that of any later building". The formal vocabulary of ancient Greek architecture, in particular the division of architectural style into three defined orders: the Doric Order, the Ionic Order and the Corinthian Order, was to have a profound effect on Western architecture of later periods. The architecture of ancient Rome grew out of that of Greece and maintained its influence in Italy unbroken until the present day. From the Renaissance, revivals of Classicism have kept alive not only the precise forms and ordered details of Greek architecture, but also its concept of architectural beauty based on balance and proportion. The successive styles of Neoclassical architecture and Greek Revival architecture followed and adapted ancient Greek styles closely.
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- enArchitectural ornament of fired and painted clay
- enMetopes, friezes and caryatid
- enOrders of ancient Greek architecture
- enStructure, masonry, openings and roof of Greek temples
- enThe Corinthian Order
- enThe Doric Order
- enThe Erechtheion, Acropolis, Athens: a building of asymmetrical plan, for the display of offerings to Athena
- enThe Ionic Order
- enThe Temple of Hephaestos, Athens, is a well-preserved temple of peripteral hexastyle plan.
- enThe Temple of Zeus Olympia, Athens,
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