Doric Greek

Eastern Hemisphere influence our lives today. To start off, multifarious Greek architecture influenced buildings today. For example, countless buildings in our country’s capital , Washington D.C , have Greek columns (Doc.1). Similarly, the Lincoln Memorial has Doric columns. The Supreme Court has Corinthian columns. Even the Jefferson Memorial has Ionic Greek columns. Not only Washington D.C has Greek columns , Greek columns…

The Parthenon is a Doric temple, which means that it consists of a rectangular floor plan with low steps on each side there are collars located throughout the structure. Before each entrance, there are also six pillars. Also, there is a rectangular room that was used as a treasury, despite the fact that this place was considered a temple. This building was looked at in replacement of two other structures. The names of the architects'…

cultures for religious purposes and more, and the architecture reflects much about the times they were built in. The Greeks worshipped…

Columns have always both a decorative feature as well as structural aspect of many buildings. In the ancient world, columns were many times very unique to the particular location that they originated in. The architectural design for a column originates in one central region and from there it spreads around the Mediterranean Sea. There are not only economic and political factors that are involved in the making of these columns, but also dealing culture and nature of the land the column was made.…

Greek influence in the city can also be seen through the deities the inhabitants of the city worshipped. Many buildings and structures were dedicated to the gods of the Pompeian citizens. An example is the Temple of Apollo. Religion was not separate from…

influence our lives today, such as architecture, transportation and the calendar. To start off, columns were used to decorate many important buildings in ancient Greece. We still use them today on important buildings too. The Greeks invented many kinds of columns like doric,…

rt and Architecture There were rules as to how ancient greece buildings should be built which were called orders. There were 3 architectural orders; Doric, Ionic and Corinthian Temples were a big part of Greece architecture. They were large simple buildings that honored a certain god or goddess, and had a statute of them built inside. The most famous architectural building of Ancient Greece is the Parthenon, located in the city of Athens. It was built for Athena, the goddess of wisdom Pottery…

Around 480 BCE, Early Classical Art begins with the Greek victory over the Persians at Salamis. Classical Art, which was realistic and religious, occurred after that period. As time progressed, the art did as well, which leads to Late Classical Art which expresses more emotion. The Greek express their ideals through their art and architecture, whether it is an ideal of body perfection, an ideal of embracing a realistic and naturalistic body or giving a building a realistically near perfect…

The portico was surrounded by an agora (a square for people's assemblies), the territory of the temple, palaestra, which existed in every Greek city. Everywhere on the slopes of the hills there are stone theaters - the most notable were built in Delphi, Dodona, Oropos, Priene, Pergamum and Syracuse. A universal distribution of the Ionic order became popular in the temple architecture, especially in Asia Minor. The reconstruction of the temple of Artemis in Ephesus continued, a magnificent temple…

architecture are their columns. They inherited them from the Greeks and each style is generally dictated by the capital at the top of the column. The Romans used them to commemorate people, places, or even events by carving into the columns. They would decorate the columns after being built and put them into place, often taking years to finish. They had three major orders of columns the Doric order, Ionic Order, and the Corinthian Order. The Doric Order is the oldest and most simplistic of their…