May 14, 2018 · Ictinus seems to have been particularly interested in the development of interior space in Greek architecture. In the Parthenon he integrated the colossal cult image of Athena with the cella in which it stood by using the superimposed rows of Doric columns which supported the ceiling of the cella as a three-sided frame for the image.

May 18, 2018 · Ictinus and Callicrates used Attic marble to construct the building, making it the first to be made completely of marble, including the ceiling tiles. The designers also adhered to strict rules of proportion throughout the structure.

May 14, 2018 · Parthenon. The C5 bc Greek Temple of Athena Parthenos on the Acropolis in Athens, widely regarded as the most refined building featuring Greek Hellenic Doric architecture, and the model for much Greek Revival work, despite the fact that many details, e.g. the relationships of columns to soffits, are less than satisfactory).

Jun 11, 2018 · In the second half of the fifth century bce, the sanctuary was expanded by Ictinus and other architects to its final form. A new telest ē rion was built, large enough to accommodate several thousand initiands (mustai), who during the initiation rites stood on …

If people can create it, you’ll probably find it in this category. Literature and the arts spans everything from writing books, designing buildings, sculpting stone, and painting on a canvas, to designing fashion, writing an article, and acting in a play.

Phigalia (fĬgā´lēə), ancient city of Greece, in SW Arcadia (now Arkadhía). It gives its name to the Phigalian Marbles, a frieze c.100 ft (30 m) long and 2 ft (61 cm) high, in high relief, representing battles between the Lapithae, a legendary people from Thessaly, and the Centaurs and between the Amazons and the Greeks.

The roof was supported by a single row of columns, eight at each end and 17 along a side. The architects, Ictinus and Callicrates, clearly possessed an advanced understanding of how humans see objects in space. In a number of places where lines appear straight, these are actually curved, because a truly straight line would have seemed curved ...

May 17, 2018 · The architects of the new temple to Athena were Ictinus and Callicrates. The cult image for the temple was the work of Phidias, who probably also created the decorative program for the whole building and is traditionally thought to have been the overall director of the works.

May 17, 2018 · Vitruvius (ca. 80 b.c. – ca. 25 b.c.). Roman architect, engineer, and author whose treatise On Architecture — written as a guidebook for Roman builders — was widely influential during the Renaissance.

Sculpture of the Classical PeriodThe Early Classical Period.About 480 b.c.e., just before the Persians under King Xerxes sacked Athens, someone dedicated a kouros (a Greek male nude statue) on the Acropolis which has been labelled the "Critian Boy" because of the resemblance of its head to a statue group by two sculptors, Critias and Nesiotes, erected a few years after the …