Parthenon

The history behind the Roman Pantheon can captivate, but the most engaging segment of the building has to be credited to the architecture. The Pantheon as it stands today allows us to look more in depth at the fascinating world of Roman architecture. It holds a lot of extraordinary details. An interesting detail of the building is the door made of bronze that is twenty feet in height. When you look at the Pantheon from the outside it may look like its shape is rectangular. The only part of the…

Introducing marble tile is much similar to introducing any clay tile. Be that as it may, since marble is a characteristic stone, there are a few difficulties on account of the common variety in the stone. I invested a lot of energy as a youth going to my close relative who lived north of Atlanta in the marble mining region of Georgia. Marble was all over the place. The region courthouse was all marble. Indeed, even my close relative's outdoor table was a marble piece. Part of the exquisite…

The two statues that I chose are from the Hellenistic period of Greek art. During the Hellenistic period of Greek art. Many artist were inspired by the artistic styles from the past. Artist of the Hellenistic period didn't focus so much on the intellectual and rational side of art like that of the classical period. Instead they focused more on fantasy and dream state of the subject. This often caused the art to have somewhat of a sexual overtone to them. The male statue that I have is a…

Dr. Ng, Thank you for your insights about Greek Epigraphy. I am very glad to hear from you that you are an epigrapher. I need to learn about it from you. Inscriptions were generally moved from their steady place with a reason of reusing the items in other constructions, and most probably, because of some catastrophic phenomena, such as earthquakes, battles, fires, and rebels, inscriptions had damages, and so the walls were reused with no historical reason. Historians need to interpret on…

Greek temples were famous for their the three types of columns on their exterior: doric, ionic, and corinthian. Doric columns have a round base, and get thinner, higher as they go up. Ionic columns, at the top, have stone that curls into spirals. Corinthian columns have flower-like decorations at the top. This is a digital recreation of the temple of zeus in Athens. It has doric temples, and a frieze There are 8 different designs for the interior of Greek temples. Each temple is based around…

The Temple of Athena Nike is a temple southwest side of the Acropolis of Athens. Built around 400 BC, this temple is the earliest fully Ionic temple. It is a protruding tall mass of rock, strategically located in a way that protects the south flank of the most vulnerable access point and gate to the citadel. (Ancient-Greece) In contrast to the Acropolis style, the Nike sanctuary was open, entered from the Propylaea southwest wing and from a narrow stair on the north. The temple was named for its…

The most advanced art formula of the pre-Archaic era was unquestionably Greek ceramic objects. Frequently including huge urns and other containers, it was adorned originally with linear, then extra intricate arrangements of triangles, zigzags as well as additional comparable forms. Symmetrical pottery consists of approximately the premium Greek creations, by means of urns classically prepared conferring to a stringent arrangement of magnitudes. As of about seven hundred, transformed connections…

The name of artwork I viewed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is, Marble statue of Dionysos leaning on an archaistic female figure. The statue was created between 27 B.C to A.D 68, which was during the Augustan or Julio - Claudian period. The original artist is unknown, but Vincenzo Pacetti restored it. This artwork caught my attention because the size of the sculpture was different from the other art works in the room. The focal point of the sculpture is his left arm. There are four different…

In my opinion, I think the artifacts, located in the Hall of Ancient Egypt should be return to its origin. This is not only considering as a personal view, but it is also an international debate. Even if these artifacts were stolen, which we do not know, they still need to be present in their country not in other places like America. They are part of the Egyptian’s background, including the people, culture, religion and so on. Imagine if someone comes to America and digging up George Washington,…

The painted Geometric Dipylon krater is a giant goblet like vessel, from 740 B.C.E in Athens. It is about three feet and four inches tall and consists of black figures, animals and symbols painted onto a paler ceramic background. The base and stem of the krater have alternating thick black stripes and zig-zagged patterns, extending about a third of the way up the cup. A stripe of a continuous figure 8 divides this section from the upper part of the krater. There is a white stripe above,…