ARTHIST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Contrapposto, Kritios, Peplos Kore
5 Oct 2018
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Wall painting series, sound in a pool. Men at symposium play a game of throwing dregs of wine at a target. Dancer moving to the rhythm of the music from the flute. Themes of reclining king and queen, leaning on a pillow and bed. Influence of art from the ancient near east. 480 bce: destruction of athens; peace with persia 450 bce. Temple of athena nike, statue of athena promachos. Upper city precinct, up of the mountains. No individual bases for columns, swelling in the middle for support. Kallikrates and iktinos view (a) and plan (b) of the parthenon & re creation of pheidas" huge gold-and-ivory figure of athena parthenos. Ionic columns in the opisthodomos, new order introduced. Large sculpture of athena parthenos, made of gold and ivory. Outside of temple is the peristyle which contained the doric columns, while inside there were ionic columns. Birth of athena, born out of zeus" head.
