CLAS 365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Corinthian Order, Nereid Monument, Tumulus
20 Apr 2017
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Considered to be invented in hellenistic period but it is untrue. Corinthian column is employed on exterior of structures. The popularity went into the roman period, especialy during augustus. Vitruvius says it was invented by sculptor callimachus. He says callimachus got the diea for this order by looking at corinthian funerary monuments. Do have some evidence it was used from. For this order, the conrinthian column first appears at temple of apollo epicurius at bassae (450- Very well preserved: built under unsual circumstances. It is aligned north south (usually east west), principal entrance on north. 38. 3 x 14. 5 m. has a doric peristyle, 6 x 15 columns. Three rooms: proanos, cella, opisthodomos: the pronaos, supported by ionic columns. Athenians in battle with amazons, lapiths fighting centaurs. But the frieze is inside, usually outside: the temple also had one corinthian column inside.
