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Lecture 6- Hellenistic Period
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- 1What are the major commonalities & differences between Classical Greek and Hellenistic art & architecture?Similarities:
- focus on the human body
Differences:
-Classical: body is stiff and unmoving; more religious and naturalistic
-Hellenistic: shows movement; more dramatic - 2Describe the Corinthian Order.- has a base
- slender shape
- leaf capital at the top - 3—Temple of Apollo (Iktinus, Bassae, Greece)
- Unusual north entrance, with a north-south orientation
- Doric peristyle, Ionic supporting porch & as attached columns in the cella, Corinthian at the back symbolizing Leto giving birth to Apollo - 4Hellenistic Art & Architecture- To serve empire; individuals mean little
- Classical: equipoise, serenity, naturalism, ideal
- ex- Critian Boy (490 BCE)
- Hellenistic: dynamism, pathos, pity & compassion, particular
- ex- Laocoon (25 BCE)
- Fascination with sensual, sexual, emotion, drama
- Meant to heighten the feeling of life - 5—Temple of Apollo (Paeonisis of Ephesos & Daphnis of Miletus, Didyma, Turkey
- Exterior appearance concealed an interior of suspense & surprise
- Ionic columns
No apparent entrance
- Small pro-style temple inside larger structure
- 6—Sanctuary of Athena (Lindos, Greece)
- Manipulation of spaces orchestrates movement through whole complexes
- Greater emphasis on axial symmetry
- More rectilinear and grid-like compositions
- 7—Miletus (Turkey)
- Designed by Hippodamus
- Rectilinear city blocks oriented to fit the landscape
- Agoras containing public buildings connect zones of housing & harbors
- 8—Priene (Turkey)
- Layout of whole colonial communities & razed settlements tended to lead to rectilinear grid plans
- The grid struggled with the environment, which was not flat
- Some streets had to be turned into stairs
- 9—Pergamon (Turkey)
- Series of self-contained complexes arranged into an overall unified composition of solids and voids
- Terraces that seem to grow out of the landscape
- Imaginative use of axial symmetries and irregular configurations in one composition