ARCHITECTURE
• Copied by other cultures
• Characteristics:
– Search for beauty =Proportion
– Material: Stone.
– Buildings: Temples and Theaters
ARCHITECTURE: THE CLASSICAL ORDER
• They were: – Doric: sober,
without decoration. No pedestal
– Ionic: thin colums and rich decoration
– Corinthian: elaborated capitals decorated with acanthus leaves
TEMPLES
• Rectangular
• Cella (small chamber)
to keep the statue of
the god/goddess
• Surrounded by rows
of columns: Peristyle
SCULPTURE
• Copied by other cultures
• Characteristics:
– Search for the ideal beauty:
• Ideal Proportions
• Classical canon of
Polykleitos (1/7)
– Movement
– Balance
• Stages:
– Archaic Period
– Classical Period
– Hellenistic Period
SCULPTURE: Archaic Period
• Represented naked
young men (Kouroi)
and women (Korai)
• Characteristics:
– Standing position, rigid
– Facing forward
– No facial expressions
SCULPTURE: Classical Period
• 5th-4th BC.
• Characteristics:
– Classical Canon
– Serene facial
expresions
– Authors:
• Phidias
Doryphoros (Polikleitos)
SCULPTURE: Hellenistic Period
• 4th-3rd BC.
• Characteristics:
– Body twisted in
exaggerated
movements
– Facial expressions
show human feelings as
pain, strength, stress…
Laocoön and his sons