Friday, March 27, 2015

Corinthian Architecture

Corinthian architecture was the last style they used in Ancient Greece. The style is rarely used during this time. The top of the column is very embellished with acanthus leaves. This style was used for the design in The Temple of Apollo at Bassae, but they did not fully use this style while building this structure. A couple other structures that used this style are the choragic monument of Lysicrates and The Temple of Zeus at Athens. These structures were built between 420BC and 2nd century AD. They also had used this style to build more known architecture of Ancient Greece, the Pantheon, and Propylaea. 








Ionic Architecture

The Ionic architecture was the second style that Ancient Greece used. The style was thinner and more elegant than the Doric. The top of the column was displayed more scroll like and very decorative, they are also more fluted than the Doric style. They used the Ionic style to build The Temple of Athena Nike, The Temple of Apollo at Didyma, and Erechtheum. These structures were built between 300BC and 405BC.




Doric Architecture

There are many types of architecture that make up Ancient Greece. One of the very first types were Doric. The structure was very bulky and plain, many refer to it as a more masculine design. The material that the Greeks used to build this Doric structure was coarse limestone and Parian marble. The Doric structure was used to build the Parthenon, which was the temple of Athena. The Parthenon was built back in the 5th century. Besides the Parthenon they used this style to build the Heraeum at Olympus and the Basilica at Paestum. 



(Greek Art, John Boardman)