Is it a building that commemorates a victory over the Persians? Or, is a religious building dedicated to the goddess Athena? Maybe a monument that proclaims the greatness of the Athenian polis mid V century BC?All this and much more is what symbolizes the Parthenon, as well as being a building that, over the centuries, has endured dropouts, bombing (by the Turks) and even looting (by the English educated, who enjoy today in the British Museum a large sculptural repertoire obtained in this temple).
"The Great Temple of ancient Greece, built between 447-432 BC, enjoys the reputation of being the most perfect Doric temple ever built. Even in antiquity, its architectural refinements were legendary, especially stylobate, tilt, or narrowing of the …show more content…
The depth at which these calculations led architects gave the building an organic quality that no other Greek construction could match.
In a temple vertical lines should not be so in reality, if we want to appear as such. Horizontal or horizontal for the same reason. To find the perfect illusion of horizontality and verticality should make the columns converge at a distant point, which makes the outer bow more strongly toward the center. Baselines and entablature should bulge, ie, bowing slightly. Otherwise, instead of horizontal curves forming arrow appear.
But to realize the subtlety reached by the builders of the Parthenon, these curves, the product of the optical correction, they did not symmetrical with respect to the axis of the building. The reason is that for the viewer leaving the Parthenon Propylaea not appear in front, but to the right, and, therefore, the curves must be corrected on this …show more content…
• The base was arched upward.
• The pediment was also arched.
The type of high temple was rectangular stepped on a small base called crepidoma. The architectural style that developed in Greece in the early seventh century BC has survived to this day as the prototype of the temple to Western culture. It often stood on the hill of a city and consisted of an enclosure surrounded by columns covered by a gable roof.
The Greek temple is holding a rectangular structure. The conception of space inside the Parthenon is a fully symmetric space. The Parthenon has no conception of experiential or functional interior space, only used to locate within the conception of the gods.
This casts its spatial conception abroad: 2 fundamental aspects; rituals are performed outside the Greek temple and is designed to be viewed from the outside sculpturally. This display means that they conceived the integration of sculpture with
"The Great Temple of ancient Greece, built between 447-432 BC, enjoys the reputation of being the most perfect Doric temple ever built. Even in antiquity, its architectural refinements were legendary, especially stylobate, tilt, or narrowing of the …show more content…
The depth at which these calculations led architects gave the building an organic quality that no other Greek construction could match.
In a temple vertical lines should not be so in reality, if we want to appear as such. Horizontal or horizontal for the same reason. To find the perfect illusion of horizontality and verticality should make the columns converge at a distant point, which makes the outer bow more strongly toward the center. Baselines and entablature should bulge, ie, bowing slightly. Otherwise, instead of horizontal curves forming arrow appear.
But to realize the subtlety reached by the builders of the Parthenon, these curves, the product of the optical correction, they did not symmetrical with respect to the axis of the building. The reason is that for the viewer leaving the Parthenon Propylaea not appear in front, but to the right, and, therefore, the curves must be corrected on this …show more content…
• The base was arched upward.
• The pediment was also arched.
The type of high temple was rectangular stepped on a small base called crepidoma. The architectural style that developed in Greece in the early seventh century BC has survived to this day as the prototype of the temple to Western culture. It often stood on the hill of a city and consisted of an enclosure surrounded by columns covered by a gable roof.
The Greek temple is holding a rectangular structure. The conception of space inside the Parthenon is a fully symmetric space. The Parthenon has no conception of experiential or functional interior space, only used to locate within the conception of the gods.
This casts its spatial conception abroad: 2 fundamental aspects; rituals are performed outside the Greek temple and is designed to be viewed from the outside sculpturally. This display means that they conceived the integration of sculpture with