archaic period
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Archaic Period. Architecture, Sculpture, and Vase-Painting. The Chronology. Archaic Period 700 - 480 BCE Orientalizing Phase 700 - 600 BCE 499 BCE Burning of Sardis 490 BCE MARATHON 480 BCE Battle of Salamis (Themistokles) 479 BCE Plataia. Architecture. Doric - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Archaic Period
Architecture, Sculpture, and Vase-Painting
The Chronology
• Archaic Period 700 - 480 BCE
• Orientalizing Phase 700 - 600 BCE
• 499 BCE Burning of Sardis
• 490 BCE MARATHON
• 480 BCE Battle of Salamis (Themistokles)
• 479 BCE Plataia
Architecture
• Doric– Temple of Apollo, Corinth (560 BCE)
– Temple of Hera, Olympia (590 BCE)
– Temple of Aphaia, Aegina (500 BCE)
– Temple of Artemis, Corcyra (580 BCE) • Ionia
– Temple of Apollo, Didyma (550 BCE)
– Temple of Hera, Samos (530 BCE) • South Italy/Sicily
– Temple G, Selinus (560 BCE)
– Temple of Zeus, Akragas (480 BCE)
– Hera I (Basilica) Poseidonia (550 BCE)
– Hera II, Poseidonia (500 BCE)
Corinth
Temple of Apollo, Corinth
• Peripteral
• Hexastyle
• Distyle in antis
• Anta
• Cella, naos
• Pronaos
• Opisthodomos
• Pteron
• Colonnade
• Stylobate
Remains of T. of Apollo • Limestone• Stucco• Painted• Cuttings into
Bedrock• Monolithic• Entasis
Olympia • Olympic Games from 776 BCE
• Archaic Buildings: Treasuries, Pelopeion, Fountains, Temple of Hera
Temple of Hera, Olympia
• 590 BCE• Early columns in wood, replaced over time• Butresses in cella
Temple of Aphaia, Aegina
• Island grew to prosperity in Orientalizing period
• Aphaia - local nymph
• Ties to Athens
• Temple is the height of Doric architecture - 500 BCE
Temple plan - Aphaia
• 6 X 12 Columns
• Ramp
• Interior Colonnade
• All Doric Refinements
– entasis
– corner contraction
– curvature
Temple of Aphaia, Aegina
Ionic Style• Dipteral
colonnade• More
elaborate interior
• Ionic columns– volute
capital
– base
– more carved detail
– flat flutes
Temple of Hera, Samos
• Rhoikos and Theodoros
• 575 - 560 BCE
• 50 X 100 m
• Dipteral plan
• Double interior colonnade
Poseidonia: Basilica
• 550 BCE• Experimenta
tion with Doric
• Nonastyle?
Basilica Columns
Hera II, Poseidonia
Treasury Buildings at Sanctuaries
• Stores votives to the divinities
• Each city-state at major Pan-hellenic sanctuaries
• Olympia: Whole row on way to stadium
• Delphi: Treasury of the Siphnians, Treasury of the Athenians
• Small Ionic or Doric Buildings
Delphi
Treasury of the Athenians• Post-
Marathon• 490/480
BCE• Deeds of
Theseus and Herakles
• Doric, Distyle in antis
Metopes
• Erymanthian Boar• Keryneian Hind
Siphnian Treasury
• Fixed date - 510 BCE
• Jewel box of Ionic Style
• Caryatids• Fine Island
Marble
Siphnian Friezes
• North: Gigantomachy
• South: Rape of Leucippidae
• West: Judgement of Paris
• East: Battle of Ajax and Memnon (Gods in Assembly)