2. Characteristics
Racional Art
(Greeks were very
interested in the
mathematic wold)
They found the
beauty in the
nature
Man like a nature
model: “Canon”
3. Architecture
Characteristics
-The temple was the most
important building
-It was built with marble
Parts
-Naos:(Hall)
-Pronaos: (contained the
statue of the deity)
Opistodomos: (place
where they kept the
tesaury)
5. Doric Order
Column doesn´t have base
Heavy columns with plain
The capital consists of a
necking which is of a simple
form.
The echinus is convex and
the abacus is square.
Above the capital is a
square abacus connecting
the capital to the entablature
The most important
building was Parthenon
6. Ionic
Column has base
Two
opposed volutes
also in the echinus of
the capital.
The most
representative
temple was
Erechtheum
8. Ancient Greek Sculpture
Characteristics
Religious sculpture
Human Beauty was
the “canon”
Sculpture was
composed almost
entirely
of marble or bronze;
Romans copied
greek sculpture
9. Archaic
Centuries: 8th-6th B.C
Inspired by the
monumental stone
sculpture of Egyp
Solidity and frontal
Archaic smile
Man: Kouros
Woman: Kores