The Temple of Athena Nike, which protrudes Southwest towards the ramp of the Propylaia would have been the second building a visitor would notice form the path. It's the smallest building on the Acropolis, but also one of the most important. It is dedicated to the goddess of victory, and gets its name from it, Athena Nike. The Nike gods go back to the Bronze Age and likely fused with the cult of Athena later. The site where it stands used to have a open pit for libations. The temple we see today
The Parthenon at Athens is a Doric temple, eight columns wide by seventeen deep, but it incorporates Ionic attributes, such as slender column proportions and use of the Ionic order in its western opisthodomos or rear porch. The temple represents the Culmination of the Doric order. It stands on a platform or stylobate of three steps (krepidoma), as per the Doric order. In common with other Greek temples, it is of post and lintel construction and is surrounded by columns ("peripteral") carrying an
white house is build a bit similar to Parthenon. they both are white and have the similar columns. But the the Parthenon is build more complexly because it is specifically build for a temple and it is the time when the Doric order began. White house was also used the Doric order to build the columns but more into a house. The two architecture have the same idea to build these two building such as columns and the stone they
Unit 2 Written Assignment For this paper I will be looking at two well known temples, which are two typical examples of classical architecture. Some features of this style of architecture have been used much later featured in neo-classical architecture. Before making a comparison it is important to introduce the background of both examples being studied, the Parthenon and the Pantheon. The Parthenon of Ancient Greece The Parthenon was a temple, was just part of a major building campaign starting
post-and-lintel system in their architecture too. One of the ways of distinguishing which building belongs to which civilization, is simply looking at the style of columns used. There are three post-and-lintel styles, Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian. The Greeks mainly used Doric and Ionic columns in their architecture. “The Parthenon is often viewed as the embodiment of Classical Doric architecture” (97). The
architecture of ancient Greece has been admired, mimicked, and replicated, its beginnings are somewhat surprising to one unfamiliar with the history of the region. It is important to understand the history and mechanics of Classic Greek architecture in order to fully appreciate its form, function, and beauty. “Ancient Greek architects strove for the precision and excellence of workmanship that are the hallmarks of Greek art in general. The formulas they invented as early as the sixth
Most Columns Consists of three main parts, which are base, shaft and capital. The Greeks is Known of developing column Styles, This Columns is still being used till today. The Three Main Orders Are Doric, Ionic and Corinthian. The Doric orderis the simplest, oldest and most massive form of the three main orders. The Greeks have developed the Doric Style in The 7th Century B.C. This Style was used in the old Greeks buildings such as Hephaisteion and Parthenon in Athens. Doric was the mainly basic
monument this essay will be discussing is the Temple to Zeus at Olympia. The Temple to Zeus was constructed between C. 470 to 450 BCE, having this temple belong to the Early Classical Period. The Temple of Zeus had the typical features of the Doric Order, a perisytle, with a rule that the number of columns on the sides should be one more than double on the front and back (thus the perisytle is 6 X 13), a pronaos, a cella and an opithodomos. The two columns between the anta in the pronaos and the opithodomos
(figure four, shown with West Portico) Jefferson’s bedroom sized at 18’ 7" x 13’ 5"; ceiling 18’ 8" has an Ionic order to it. The friezes were influenced by classical antiques. (figure five, left) The Cabinet measures 18’ 6" x 11’ 10"; ceiling 10’ 0". This room has been influenced by the Ionic style. (figure five, right) There are a total of forty-three rooms in the entire structure: thirty three are in the house itself (cellar, twelve; first
The Greeks created three different architectural orders for columns. The three orders were the Doric, Ionic and Corinthian orders. The Doric columns was the Greeks first architectural order. Although it had a simple capital and no base, it was the widest among the three orders. The Ionic columns had a more detailed capital that was in the form of a double scroll. The Ionic columns also had a base unlike the Doric order. The Corinthian column had a capital that was sculpted with flowers