Quiz : Classical Sculpture

Which image reflects Classical themes and style? R or L

Examine: body, weight, facial expression, movement/axis, interaction

What descriptive words can be applied?

Classical Classical ArchitectureArchitecture

3 Orders of Antique Architecture

Doric Order = oldest, most austere

Ionic Order = graceful

Corinthian Order = most complex

QUIZ #1: Temple of Athena Nike, Parthenon, Athens

QUIZ #2 Temple of Hera II, Paestrum, Italy

QUIZ #3 :Iktinos and Kalikrates, The Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, Greece

In search of ideal relationships

Like Doryphoros, here is the culmination in a 200 year effort to find perfect order and harmony through strict mathematical porportions.

Note the development of many features in the bottom image

Symmetria is controlled by ratio x=2y+1

Order disguises many irregularities; entasis, . . .

460 B.C.E.

447-438 B.C.E.

Connections?

QUIZ #4 Maison Carrée, Nîmes, France

Look-a-likes

What are the differences?

What some possible reasons for making them look similar?

Why not use the model completely?

What can be deduced about respective societies by comparing these two edifices?

A R C H E S

P O W E P O W E R R

D O M E S

Pantheon, Rome, Italy

S P A C E

C E M E N T