of the Pantheon than the Greeks did with the Parthenon. The Parthenon was built entirely of marble with a limestone base while the Pantheon was built from several materials such as marble‚ granite‚ concrete‚ and brick. Apart from housing the statue of Athena‚ the Parthenon also serves as an area where the citizens come together to discuss ideas‚ politics and economics. But the Parthenon despite this use was not open to the general public while the Pantheon has always been open to the general public
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times of invasions. The Parthenon is actually a place to thank and worship the Goddess Athena for helping the Greeks defeat the Persian empire. Famous Greek art is mostly sculptures‚ vase paintings‚ and architecture. I already talked about an example of ancient and architectural art (the Parthenon). The early word for sculpture is kouros. Some sculptures are‚ Achilles‚ Helen of Troy‚ and The Statue of Athena (found in the Parthenon). Most sculptures were nude because the
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riton doesn’t have his own myth‚ but he was mentioned in major myths. Most notably‚ he played an important role in the myth Jason and the Golden Fleece. In the myth‚ Jason and his crew set out to sea in search of the legendary Golden Fleece. While searching for the Golden Fleece‚ they were stranded in Libya near the Tritonious lake. Triton‚ knowing the dangers of the area‚ disguised himself as human and approached the group. The men told him they were stranded and Triton‚ in disguise‚ suggested
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are taut and pronounced‚ the drapery sweeping and tumultuous‚ the poses violent and dramatic‚ the faces expressive and pained. In one scene‚ the goddess Athena has caught a giant by the hair; he gazes helplessly toward the sky as he tries to free himself from her grip. His expressive pose resembles that of a Trojan priest‚ Laocoön‚ in a later statue of Laocoön and his Sons (Vatican Museums)‚ shown as he struggles to free himself from giant snakes. Although the names of the sculptors of the Laocoön
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but very sturdy. The third was the Corinthian Order. Ta the top of each capital of this order were carved Acanthus leaves. They were very beautiful‚ but not quite as sturdy as the other two. The columns were sometimes replaced with load-bearing statues called Caryatids. Greek Homes Greek houses were probably the most common of all buildings. They were built out of mud‚ and bricks. They all had a few rooms for dining‚ cooking‚ bathing‚ and sleeping. To conclude about Greek homes‚ most Greek citizens
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mythology was like a complex and rich language‚ in which the Greeks could express a vast range of perceptions about the world. A Greek citystate devoted itself to a particular god or group of gods in whose honor it built temples. The temple generally housed a statue of the god or gods. The Greeks honored the city’s gods in festivals and also offered sacrifices to the gods‚ usually a domestic animal such as a goat. Stories about the gods varied by geographic location: A god might have one set of characteristics in one city
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The subject for my abstract is the statue of Zeus in Olympia. The statue was fashioned by Phidias and occupied half the width of the aisle of the large temple built to house it. "It seems that if Zeus were to stand up‚" the geographer Strabo said in the 1st century BC‚ "he would sunroof the temple.” The statue was a chryselephantine sculpture‚ made with ivory and gold panels on a wooden substructure. No copy in marble or bronze has lasted this long‚ though that can be recognized by only certain kinds
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Neils’s analysis of the spacial placement issues of the Gods. Describing it as “…particularly important‚ but problematic”‚ the problematic portion is the fact that the all the gods depict‚ except Dionysos have their backs to the high point of honoring Athena‚ the ceremony of Peplos. However‚ there are various interpretations that I believe validate the placement. For instance‚ the suggestion that the designer ran into a spatial issue and therefore decided to position them in a way that allows them to
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| Art History MidtermStudy online at quizlet.com/_8m0yq | 1. | A Classical colonnade around a building or courtyard is called a | | peristyle | 2. | A half-column attached to a wall is called a/an | | Engaged column | 3. | A plain or decorated slab on a Doric frieze which alternates with the triglyphs is called the | | Metopes | 4. | A series or row of columns usually spanned by lintels is called a/an: | | Colonnade
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ring. Of course he wins Andromeda’s hand in marriage. [Meeting of the Goddess] At the wedding‚ Queen Cassiopeia compares Andromeda’s beauty to Thetis herself‚ which angers the Goddess incredibly and gives her an excuse to fulfill her son’s wish the statue of Thetis collapses and its head
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