Greek and Roman Architecture The Greeks thought of their Gods as having the same needs as human beings‚ they believed that the Gods needed somewhere to live on Earth. Temples were built as the gods’ earthly homes. The basic design of temples developed from the royal halls of the Maycenaean Age. A Mycenaean palace consisted of a number of buildings often more than one story high‚ grouped around a central courtyard. It was brightly painted‚ both inside and out. In each palace there was a large
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About 600 BCE‚ inspired by the theory and practice of earlier Egyptian stone masons and builders‚ the Greeks set about replacing the wooden structures of their public buildings with stone structures - a process known as ’PETRIFICATION’. Limestone and marble was employed for columns and walls‚ while terracotta was used for roof tiles and ornaments. Decoration was done in metal‚ like bronze. Like painters and sculptors‚ Greek architects enjoyed none of the enhanced status accorded to their successors.
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was the patron to the people of Athens. The Parthenon was built in the mid-5th century BCE. The Parthenon was built by the architects Ictinus and Callicrates and was supervised by Phidias (the sculptor who built the Athena statue). The Parthenon was made out of white marble‚ the colonnade of grooves‚ there was baseless columns with square capitals stands on a three-stepped base and supporting the roof structure. The roof consisted of a frieze of alternating triglyphs and metopes. At the west and
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and of his achievements. Here‚ we will look at two vivid examples of such a pattern in the art of the ancient Rome: the statue of Augustus of Prima Porta and the colossal head of emperor Constantine. Even though
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Daphne (Galleria Borghese‚ Rome) were already evidence of his exceptional gift: he was trying to make his favourite material‚ marble‚ more pliable‚ by using it as a wax‚ he created illusion of mobility of plastic forms. Furthermore‚ Bernini differed from others artists paying attention for details such as skin‚ clothes‚ hair‚ earth‚ bark‚ leaves. He was sculptor of marble (Glover‚ 2009). He had another approach and made them as alive as it had been never done before. In addition to that‚ the good
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Hormisdas is an earlier name of the place in Greek.The name Bucoleon was probably attributed after the end of the 6th century under Justinian I‚ when the small harbour in front of the palace‚ which is now filled‚ was constructed. According to tradition‚ a statue featuring a bull and a lion stood there‚ giving the port its name (βους and λέων are Greek for "bull" and "lion" respectively). "House of Hormisdas" and "House of Justinian" are other names referring to Bucoleon Palace. Emperor Theophilos‚ among
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Surpassing marble with its tensile strength‚ reflective characteristics‚ and capability of embracing the finest details‚ bronze statues were produced in thousands and served as vehicles for the transmission of culture and technology through trade‚ migration‚ emulation and plunder. However‚ only a small number of those have survived and are dispersed worldwide and displayed as masterpieces. Two
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originally coined by archeologist V.I. Leonardos in 1895 for a statue dedicated to the god Apollo. Kuros became an official generic term for a freestanding male figure in 1904 by Henri Lechat. The earliest kore produced according to archeologist is the Dedication of Nikandre for Artemis in Delos. The Kore that is most famous from this period is the Phrasikleia Kore‚ she is a grave marker to a young girl of the same name. The statue of Phrasikleia is a testament to her status as an unmarried virgin
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Daddy" Sylvia Plath’s poem “Daddy” elicits the realistic anecdote of a tattered woman’s attempt to salvage her own reality. The poem begins with a description of the conditions of which the speaker suffered throughout her maimed childhood. It also goes into detail about the relationship between the speaker and her father and how his demanding presence affected her maturation. The speaker not only explains the situation‚ but also relates it to that of World War II. She feels as if she
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buildings is the vast number of columns built. The columns in Parthenon were carved out of blocks stacked on top of each other‚ whereas the ones used in the Pantheon is made of one solid block of granite‚ which was brought from Egypt. Both had statues and carvings of gods‚ which were worshiped by the cultures. The most obvious difference is their shape‚ the Parthenon is rectangular‚ and the Pantheon
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