ARTHI 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Architrave, Callicrates, Panathenaic Games
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Sculptures were created to show ideals of their time. Made to be naturalistic but still often idealized in some way. Ideals were subjective and subject to change over time and sculptures reflected them as so. Altars for offerings made outside, in front of temple. Parthenon is the most influential style of design in western art. Shaft - the long part of the columns of the facade. Capitals - the tops of the columns, joining them to. Entablature - everything of top of the columns (architrave, frieze, cornice) Frieze - alternating set of images and column-like shapes. Metopes - square images between the triglyphs, represented battles. Pediment - the triangle part on top, holds a relief image and free-standing sculptures. Cella, nailos - central room often with additional colonnades and a statue of the god/goddess. The decorations depended on who the temple was dedicated to. Female deities would often receive temples with corinthian capitals.
