Roman funerary monuments were used as a way to tell people about the lives or importance of those who passed away. The monument that I chose to analyze is called the Sextus Maelius Stabilio, Vesinia Iuncunda, and Sextus Maelius Faustus. I decided to analyze this because of the way that it stood out when compared to the other statues in the museum, because it shared a message of family and it also held a theme of pride. This particular piece is a 31 ½ by 58 ½ by 8 inch marble sculpture1 that was chiseled to help bring attention to its 3D effect and to also emphasis the realistic features of each of the people. It was placed in the North Carolina Museum of Art under object number 79.1.2.…
The ancient Greek civilization had two memorable and influential achievements, one of which was architectural and the other political. As seen in the Parthenon, the Greeks were unbelievable architects, and one of the most important inventions, if not the most important invention, was the column (document 2). The column can be seen on many Greek structures including manors, government buildings and other buildings. Columns augmented the Greeks capability of building structures. Another achievement of the ancient Greeks was the ideology of a democracy.…
Ancient Greece has contributed a variety of subjects from poetry to philosophy, but what are the areas Ancient Greece had the greatest influence? Ancient Greece has been significantly influential to American culture, specifically in the area of political structure and science, although, entertainment is also noteworthy. In 508 BCE, Democracy begun (Doc. 1); a political system that introduced unbiased judgment and would be later expanded upon for the American political principles. Democracy was a government crafted by the people, that is to say, Athenian men who were allowed to vote.…
Certain aspects of The Parthenon had to be built larger than customary to accommodate the massive statue of Athena it was to house. Since The Parthenon, like all Greek temples, was designed to be viewed from the outside only, special attention was given to the size and position of the columns making those on the outside fractionally larger than those on the interior to offset the difference in appearance of the center columns against the static background of the stone versus those on the outside against the horizon. The Parthenon, while not the largest temple in Greece, is notable because so many classical…
The theme of this embellishment is not known, but its form was unusual in that white marble figures, carved in relief were attached to a flat background of dark gray marble. Typically, a frieze presents painted figures on a monochrome background. What makes the Acropolis so amazing is the buildings within its walls. There is the Parthenon, the Propylaea, the Erechtheion, the temple of Athena Nike, and more. After ascending nearly three hundred feet up the hill you come to what is called the "Propylaea".…
The sculpture produced in ancient Greece is naturalistic compared to artworks and sculptures from previous times and cultures. The form of body is not stylized, nor does the bends in its arms and legs have sharp edges, the body is actually smooth and natural looking. The figure also has normal sized eyes and not enlarged eyes and male breast. The figure is in contrapposto pose like many of the other figures from this ancient Greek period.…
The kouros and the kore were statues and sculptures in the Greek times. The kouroi were replicas of young males, which were always nude to represent “the conditioning and strength of the military forces of a particular polis.” (Sayre,53) The first kouroi had unique squared shoulders and hips and forward-facing legs which formed a since of movement. During the early 500’s the kouroi became more naturalistic and represented the human body more realistically, rather than their early forms in which they appear lifeless and dull.…
It is a common error to accredit most of their borrowed inspiration from the Greeks when it was equally borrowed from the widely forgotten Etruscans. Their inspiration is rather a hybrid of Greek and Etruscan influence. The first Roman temples were largely modeled after Etruscan style, especially the early temple to Jupiter in Rome, the Capitolium. The temple rested on a high platform, a single set of steps leading to a large portico, and the inner temple being divided into three chambers are all elements of Etruscan design.…
The buildings in ancient Greece were very symmetrical and were split into two group, Doric building and Ionic buildings. Mainly art was to honor the gods. They took temples very seriously and worked held to make them the fanciest building. The patrons of the arts in ancient Greece are Calliope, Euterpe, Terpsichore, Clia, Meplarmene, Thalia, Erato, Polyhymnia, and Urania. The artists were held to a very high standard because they painted the gods.…
The religious architecture in ancient Greece can heavily be found in the United States, today. Ancient Greece had many stain glassed windows, large crosses, and artistic pictures of gods inside of their religious temples and churches. All of these features are profoundly shown in the churches of the United States, today. A great amount of United States buildings are based off of Greek architecture.…
Roman architecture has long been a defining model for some of the greatest works during Renaissance and Neoclassical revival eras. The Pantheon, Maison Carrée, and other such temples and buildings of the late BCE-early CE period have their clear influence on works like Jefferson’s Virginia State Capitol. However, not all Ancient Roman designs saw their full potential of influence on future works, leaving only the ancient architecture as just a ruin to be preserved through the ages. One such work, the Flavian Amphitheater, or Roman Colosseum as it is more commonly known, can be considered the greatest amphitheater ever designed. Not only based on its size, but also the intricacy of its hypogeum and importance in Roman culture support this,…
About 5,000 years ago in the land between Tigris and Euphrates rivers, city-states started to appear. These early Mesopotamian cities engaged in form of socialism, where farmers contributed their crops to storehouses by which workers, such as metalworkers or builders, were able to excel on their particular expertise. The Mesopotamian hallmarks the beginning of the first complex urban societies.…
The Persian sack of Athens in 480 B.C.E. has left modern archeologist perplexed as to what it meant for the fate of the temple of Athena on the Acropolis. Gloria Ferrari has compiled and analyzed the most predominant theories concerning the temple’s actuality through use of evidence provided through archaeological, epigraphical, and historical means. The first theory is proposed by Dörpfeld, in which the temple was not destroyed during the sack of Athens merely damaged and repaired (Ferrari 2002, 11). Bates theorized the temple was destroyed by the Persians, but not rebuilt in order to uphold the Oath of Plataea (Ferrari 2002, 13). Thirdly Curtius proposes that the damaged temple was simply repurposed (Ferrari 2002, 15).…
The space between the columns and its relations to the diameter of the columns corresponds to the equations as well. Symmetry in architecture is quite significant to the Greeks of the Classical period. Regarding the symmetry and proportion of Greek temples, the famous architect Vitruvius explained that in Doric order, symmetry may be calculated from the thickness of a column, from a triglyph and even from a module. Vitruvius proposed rules that explained the mathematical principal behind the building: he size of the module is equal to the width of a triglyph, and the width of a metope is 1.5 times the width of a triglyph. Also, there was discovery that the Parthenon was related to Pythagoreanism.…
Ancient Greek architecture can be divided into three major periods: the Archaic period (700-480 BC), the Classical period (480-323 BC), and the Hellenistic Period (323-146 BC). All three periods reflect the culture of that time in Ancient Greece and follow the advancements in Greek society. For example, sculptures from different periods have different aesthetics. This means that the idea of what is beautiful changed in Greek culture over time. Art and architecture of Ancient Greece also reflects the beliefs, thoughts, and advancements of their culture.…