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Especially many Doric temples were built in the first half of the 6th century BC. e. in another large city of Magna Graecia - Selinunte, founded in the 7th century BC. e. on the southern coast of Sicily by the Megarians. The city grew rapidly, its original territory between the mouths of two rivers soon proved insufficient, and the construction of temples was transferred to the coastal plateau to the east of it (Fig. 33, 34).
Inside the acropolis of the old city there were five temples, the remains of which are conventionally designated by the letters O, A, B, C and D.
Within the boundaries of the new city there were temples E (R), F (S), G (T).
Temple "C". The most ancient of the temples of Selinunte is Temple C, built between 580 and 570 BC. e. (Fig. 35-38). It was a peripterus, with the number of columns 6 x 17. The dimensions of the stylobate were 23.93 x 63.76 m. The narrow, elongated cella (10.48 x 41.63 m) was moved back within the colonnade by three intercolumnia, and the resulting space filled with a second row of columns, as in the temple on Fr. Ortygia. Pronaos did not have the usual columns between the antes; the entrance was a simple opening in the front wall. The floor of the interior of the temple was raised above the stylobate, which did not have stairs on the sides and rear sides. Only a nine-step staircase led to the entrance to the temple. Behind the celle there was an aditon. The material for the walls was local limestone, plastered on the outside.
The columns of Temple “C” are very heavy and squat; their height is 4.5 D. These are the heaviest columns in proportions of all the temples of Selinunte. Their monolithic trunks were thinned, but lacked entasis.
The number of flutes for most is 16, for some - 20. The capital consisted of a wide abacus and a rather elastic echinus, decorated with four straps. The neck is emphasized by three incisions. The arrangement of columns is very tight; The intercolumni barely exceeded the diameter of the columns (from 1.13 to 1.3 D) and along the main facade they decreased from the middle to the corners. On the side sides of the temple, the columns are thinner than on the end ones (4.8-D), but the corner columns are slightly thicker.
The entablature of the temple is very heavy (0.5 column height; Fig. 36). The pediment had a slight rise (1:8.14). Metopes, equal in width to triglyphs, have the shape of vertically elongated rectangles. Some of the metopes were decorated with reliefs (Fig. 37, 38). The mutuli above them are twice as narrow as those above the triglyphs, and have only three drops in a row. The field of metopes is greatly deepened and decorated with reliefs of an archaic nature. Traces of coloring have been preserved: the field of metopes is red.
The pediment cornice, topped with a terracotta sima, with an intricate sawtooth ornament of palmettes, had fractures above the corner triglyphs and turned into a horizontal section. Thus, the base of the pediment was narrower than the façade; this technique was repeated somewhat later in the temple of Demeter in Poseidonia.
The forms and construction techniques at Temple C are characteristic of the transitional phase of early Doric stone monuments. The forms and proportions that repeated the traditions of wooden architecture in stone were abandoned, but new forms, more characteristic of stone, have not yet been fully found. The architect made the proportions too heavy. A number of architectural elements remained unfinished. Such are the fractures of the cornice, the lack of entasis in the monolithic trunks of the columns, the shape of the neck of their capitals in the form of a sinking scotia.
Temple "D". Temple "D", standing next to Temple "C", was built somewhat later - around 560 BC. e. (Table 8). It had more usual outlines and proportions of the plan for the established Dorica. The number of columns is 6 x 13 - a number that later became canonical in Hellenic architecture. The size of the stylobate was 23.53 x 55.96 m. Its interior, normally located inside the colonnade, consisted of pronaos, cella and adyton. The antas of the pronaos ended in three-quarter columns.
Like all the buildings of Selinunte, the temple lay in ruins for a long time. Only during the restoration work carried out in the twenties of our century, fifteen columns were raised and placed in place. Their proportions are heavy and squat. With a height of 7.35 m, they have a lower diameter of 1.67 m on the end sides (giving a ratio of H = 4.4 D) and slightly less on the sides. Some of the columns have a monolithic trunk, its thinning is quite significant - the upper diameter is about 1.15 m. There is no entasis. The intercolumnae are quite wide—1.67 D. The entablature is very heavy (0.55 of the column height), with a massive cornice. The pediment is slightly higher than in Temple “C” (1: 7.33). As in Temple “C”, the capital has a wide abacus, but the shape of the echinus is more flattened, its lines are sluggish (Fig. 39). Small stairs led from the portico to the pronaos and from the cella to the aditon. Compared to Temple “C,” the area of the interior premises increased, but the distance between the walls and the outer colonnade remained significant. Temple "D" is also built from local limestone and plastered.
The most peculiar feature of Temple "D" is the discrepancy between the relatively wide intercolumnia, preserving the traditions of wooden architecture, and the heavy proportions of columns and entablature, more characteristic of stone architecture.
Temple "F" (or "S"). Simultaneously with Temple “D” or somewhat later (560-540 BC), Temple “F” (or “S”) was built, the plan of which is in many ways reminiscent of the two previous monuments. On the eastern side, temple "F" had a second row of columns, like temple "C", but located closer to the naos.
The variety of planning solutions of the temples of Magna Graecia is apparently explained by the fact that their naos (unlike the temples of the metropolis) did not repeat the forms of the simplest temple buildings (temple in antes, prostyle) and therefore were less clearly associated with the outer colonnade.
Between the columns of the pteron, a thin stone wall was erected, reaching half of their height and treated with flat blades and horizontal rods, reminiscent of frame wooden partitions (Fig. 40, 41).
Temple "G" (or "T"). The Temple of Apollo "G" (or "T") on the territory of the new city in Selinunte is one of the most large temples Greece. Its dimensions (50.1 x 110.36 m along the stylobate) are slightly smaller than the sizes of the early Ionic temples of Artemis in Ephesus and Hera on the island. Samos, as well as a Doric temple of the 5th century BC. e. in Akragant, called the "Temple of the Giants". The construction of Temple "G" ("T") began in 540 BC. e. and continued after a break in 480-470 BC. e. Due to the changing requirements for the completion of the western part of the temple in the 5th century, two columns of the antovo opisphodom were erected on the foundations laid for the typical aditon in Sicily, and instead of the aditon for religious needs, a small room, closed on three sides, was built inside the middle ship of the cella. Still unfinished, it was destroyed by the Carthaginians in 409 BC. e. Most of the columns of the temple remained unchanneled.
The number of pteron columns is 8 x 17. The width of the temple porticos is two intercolumnia, so that the temple can be called a pseudodipter (Fig. 42).
The interior space in temple “G” (“T”) is moved back from the front row of columns even more than in temple “C”—by four intercolumnia; the resulting space is occupied here not by the second row of columns, but by the forward columns of the pronaos, fenced, thus, antas and six columns (4+2). We will see a similar protile solution further in the temple of Demeter in Poseidonia.
The cella of the temple is divided by two rows of columns into three naves, which correspond to three entrance openings in its front wall.
The height of the columns of the outer portico is 16.27 m. Their proportions are different in the eastern and western parts of the colonnade (Fig. 43, 44). The earlier columns of the eastern part and northern side retain harmonious proportions, closer to wooden architecture (D = 2.60 m, H = 6.25 D). The columns of the western facade and opisphodom are the latest, much thicker (D = 3.50 m, H = 4.64 D) and stand more closely together (Fig. 44). The capitals are also different: the earlier ones have a flattened echinus with a deep notch at its base and a thin abacus with a large offset, while the later ones have a more elastic shape. All columns consist of drums and have 20 flutes.
The ratio between the height of the entablature and the columns is 1: 2.44, close to the ratios characteristic of temples of the early 5th century BC. uh,
All in all big temple Selinunta, reflecting several stages of construction, separated from each other in time by 50-70 years, gives a mixture of architectural forms of early and developed archaism.
Already the metope of the Temple of Athena, in Selinunte (VI century BC) demonstrates the stunning stylistic consonance of the relief and ponderous architecture characteristic of the archaic. The metope depicts Perseus, who, with the support of Athena, defeats the gorgon Medusa8.
Perseus, the son of Zeus and Danae, was ordered to obtain the head of the Gorgon Medusa. The messenger of the gods, Hermes and Athena, came to the aid of the hero. Athena gave Perseus a shiny copper shield, in which everything was reflected as in a mirror, and Hermes - a sharp sword and winged sandals. Perseus, looking into the shield, cut off Medusa's head and gave it to Athena, who placed it on her aegis - a goatskin breastplate.
Perseus killing the gorgon Medusa.
Metope of the Temple of Athena at Selinunte.
VI century BC e. National Archaeological
museum. Palermo
The array of the temple in which it seemed. The architectural order, which hardly overcomes the inert mass of stone, set the basic form of the relief: the broad-faced, heavyset gorgon Medusa, the squat Perseus with thick legs and a short body, and the big-headed Athena. But the bulky, rough figures of the goddess, hero and fleshy monster, ponderous close up, at a distance perfectly matched the appearance of the Doric temple, without violating the stylistic unity.
The integrity of the architecture and stone decoration was given by the alternation of light and dark areas of the relief that encircled the temple, like a chased pattern of shadow spots. At the same time, dynamic compositions were located at the edges; towards the center they became more lifeless and frozen.
As the spirit of rationalism overcame the resistance of matter and the temple acquired drier, clearer outlines, the pictorial effect of the large shadow pattern lost its significance. The Greeks found more spiritual forms of relief, the interaction of which with architecture became easier and more subtle. Each relief conveys a dramatic action, and its expression is a simple movement, a gesture. For example, the metone of the temple of 3eus in Olympia (beginning of the 5th century BC) of the early classical period is decorated with a scene of the penultimate labor of Hercules 9, associated with the acquisition of the golden apples of the Hesperides - the apples of eternal youth.
Having reached the extreme west, where the garden of the Hesperides was located and the titan Atlas held the vault of heaven on his shoulders, Hercules offered him help for a while in gratitude for three golden apples from the garden of his daughters. Atlas wanted to outwit the hero by giving up his burden forever. But when Atlas returned with wonderful fruits, Hercules. pretending that he wanted to put a pillow on his back, he asked the simple-minded titan again, but only for a minute to hold the sky.
The drama of the situation is conveyed by the simple and at the same time eloquent movement of the outstretched hands of the titan with fruits. It contains both the joy of newfound freedom from the heaviest burden of the firmament, and bewilderment at the hero’s whim. Hercules somehow distantly and indifferently looks at the gift, seemingly holding the sky with extreme exertion of physical strength and will. But with a slight movement, Athena, standing behind him, helps him, dressed in an overly simple chiton flowing over her shoulders, sliding off her raised hand and revealing a touchingly thin and delicate wrist. In general, the entire relief is an illustration of the superiority of human ingenuity and intelligence over the chthonic power of the elements.
The metopes depict episodes of legendary battles that were identified with the victory of the Hellenes over the barbarian Persians in the Greco-Persian Wars, as well as with the victory of the rational human principle over the elemental forces of nature.
The pure architecture of the Parthenon did not need the pictorial complement of a large shadow pattern, so Phidias chose simple, flowing lines that gave the desired impression. The metope of the southern frieze, for example, depicts a Greek forcefully pushing away a centaur10 and during a fight at the wedding of King Pirithous.
Pirithous was the leader of the mountain tribe of the Lapiths, who had a common ancestor with the wild centaurs. For this reason, the centaurs were invited to the leader's wedding, but... Having become drunk, they began to go on rampages, trying to kidnap the bride and other women.
The tense calves on the legs, pressing against the ground with effort, the protesting gesture of the hand with swollen veins, the sharply defined muscles of the torso, the draperies clinging in restless folds to the body - all this very accurately expresses the rejection of the bright and reasonable human nature by the ignorant and unbridled bestial force.
At the same time, in the calmly rounded lines that create an emotionally accurate image, there is no expression, fracture, or shockingness.
The rhythm of lines also emotionally capaciously reflects a specific idea in the reliefs of the Ionic frieze of the Parthenon, running like a continuous ribbon on top of the cella. This idea is a triumph of Athenian democracy. It is embodied by the majestic procession of the inhabitants of Athens from the market square of the Agora to the Acropolis on the feast of the Great Panathenaia, captured by Phidias.
A procession of noble Athenian girls with a precious burden - a new cloak-peplos* for the statue of Athena - moves in a continuous stream from the southwestern corner in both directions. Water carriers support huge amphorae containing wine, incense and olive oil for sacrificial offerings.
The ephebes** lead the horses by the bridle, sit on them, ride with a solemn step, start galloping, and start galloping to meet on the eastern side. The gods who descended from Olympus sit there and the cloak is handed over to the priest of the goddess.
* Penlos – outerwear made of woolen fabric with folds, sleeveless, which the Greeks wore over a chiton - a shirt tied with a belt.
** Ephebes are young men prepared for military and civil service.
A clear idea of the features of the relief is given by two figures of ephebes on horses. The movement is directed along the wall, and the identical poses of the galloping horses, the outlines of the legs and backs of the riders give rise to the measured, solemn rhythm of the frieze.
At the same time, it is devoid of monotony due to the diversity in details: the manes and bend of the horses’ necks, the postures and hand gestures of the riders, and their clothing are different. The composition shows an ideal proportion between repetition and contrast, indicating the sense of proportion that the ancient Greeks so valued. Although the low relief almost merges with the wall, the sense of space is given by the alternation of plans and overlapping forms - a cloak fluttering behind the rider’s back, the horse’s croup covered by the leg of another horse, the hand of a young man hidden by the mane. With their help, three-dimensionality of space is achieved, which in reality is almost absent.
The smooth, musical rhythm of the relief helped those who came to the temple to feel how fun and easy life was in the rays of the divine presence. The gods do not shy away from people, their daily affairs and concerns, and therefore the air for mortals is “diffused with light azure and permeated with the sweetest radiance.” The material also contributes to this worldview. The cold shine of polished marble creates a feeling of some detachment, natural when communicating with the gods, but the ability of this stone to convey flowing fabrics, delicate skin, curly hair gives the images human warmth.
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EVOLUTION OF GREEK RELIEF FROM ARCHAIC TO HIGH CLASSICAL Temple of Athena in Selinunte Temple of Zeus in Olympia Metopes and Ionic frieze in the Parthenon
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Greek art reached its highest perfection in relief. The evolution of relief went from the entertaining diversity of the archaic to the simple forms of the classics, strict and humane. The peculiarity of the Greek relief is not in the verisimilitude and transmission of external resemblance, but in the ability to find those forms and that linear rhythm that extremely accurately reflect the essence of the plot and correspond architectural style Temple of Athena in Selinunte
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ARCHAIC Metope of the Temple of Athena in Selinunte (VI century BC) Archaic. Stunning stylistic consonance of relief and heavy architecture. The metope depicts Perseus, who, with the support of Athena, defeats the gorgon Medusa. The picturesque effect of a large shadow pattern on the metope had great importance. Plot: Perseus, the son of Zeus and Danae, was ordered to obtain the head of the gorgon Medusa. The messenger of the gods, Hermes and Athena, came to the aid of the hero. Athena gave Perseus a shiny copper shield, in which everything was reflected as in a mirror, and Hermes gave him a sharp sword and winged sandals. Perseus, looking into the shield, cut off Medusa's head and gave it to Athena, who placed it on her aegis - a goatskin breastplate.
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EARLY CLASSICS Temple of Zeus at Olympia (beginning of the 5th century BC) The spirit of rationalism overcame the resistance of matter, the temple acquired drier, clearer outlines, the Greeks found more spiritual forms of relief, the interaction of which with architecture became easier and more subtle. Each relief conveys a dramatic action, and its expression is a simple movement, a gesture. The metope of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia is decorated with a scene of the penultimate labor of Hercules, associated with the acquisition of the golden apples of the Hesperides - the apples of eternal youth. Plot: Having reached the extreme west, where the garden of the Hesperides was located and where the titan Atlas held the firmament on his shoulders, Hercules offered him temporary help in gratitude for three golden apples from the garden of his daughters. Atlas wanted to outwit the hero by giving up his burden forever. But when Atlas returned with wonderful fruits, Hercules, pretending that he wanted to put a pillow on his back, asked the simple-minded titan again, but only for a moment to hold the sky
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Metopes of the Parthenon (? - c. 431 BC) The unique ability of Greek art to find the exact movement and rhythm of lines in order to reveal the internal pattern of the plot and create a complete image. This is especially obvious in the reliefs of the metopes and the Ionic frieze of the Parthenon - the creations of the great Phidias. Phidias chose simple, flowing lines that give the desired impression. The metope of the southern frieze, for example, depicts a Greek forcefully pushing away a centaur during a fight at the wedding of King Pirithous. The tense muscles on the legs, pressing against the ground with effort, the protesting gesture of the hand with swollen veins, the sharply defined muscles of the torso, the draperies clinging in restless folds along the body - all this very accurately expresses the rejection of the bright and reasonable human nature of the ignorant and unbridled bestial force.
The art of Ancient Greece played vital role in the development of culture and art of humanity. It was determined by the social and historical development of this country, which was deeply different from the development of the countries of the Ancient East. In Greece, despite the presence of slavery, the free labor of artisans played a huge role - until the development of slavery had a destructive effect on it. In Greece, within the framework of a slave-owning society, the first principles of democracy in history developed, which made it possible to develop bold and deep ideas that affirmed the beauty and significance of man.
When going to class society, in Ancient Greece a number of small city-states, the so-called policies, were formed. Despite the presence of numerous economic, political, and cultural ties, the poleis were independent states and each pursued its own policy.
Stages of development of the art of Ancient Greece:
1. Homeric Greece(12-8 centuries BC) - the time of the collapse of the tribal community and the emergence of slave relations. The appearance of the epic and the first, primitive monuments of fine art.
2. Archaic, or the period of formation of slave-owning city-states (7-6 centuries BC) - a time of struggle between ancient democratic artistic culture and the remnants and survivals of old social relations. The formation and development of Greek architecture, sculpture, crafts, the flowering of lyrical poetry.
3 Classic, or the heyday of the Greek city-states (5-4 centuries BC) - a period of high prosperity of philosophy, natural scientific discoveries, the development of poetry (especially drama), a rise in architecture and the complete victory of realism in the fine arts. At the end of this period, the first crisis of the slave society began, the development of the polis came into decline, which in the second half of the 4th century caused a crisis in the art of classics.
3. Hellenistic period(late 4th-1st centuries BC) - a period of short-term recovery from the crisis through the formation of large empires. However, very soon there came an inevitable aggravation of all the insoluble contradictions of slavery. Art is losing the spirit of citizenship and nationality. Subsequently, the Hellenistic states were conquered by Rome and included in its empire.
The poleis were constantly at enmity with each other, however, they united in the event of an attack on Greece by a common enemy (this was the case with Persia and Macedonia). Every citizen had the right to participate in government. Naturally, there were internal contradictions among free citizens, often expressed in the struggle of the demos (the people) against representatives of the aristocracy.
In Ancient Greece, physical strength and beauty were especially valued: pan-Greek competitions were organized in Olympia (Peloponnesian Peninsula). Time was kept at the Olympics, and statues were erected for the winners. Theatrical performances, initially associated with religious festivities, including those in honor of the patrons of the policies (for example, the festival of the Great Panathenaia for the Athenians), were of great importance in the development of aesthetic perception. Religious views The Greeks retained their connection with folk mythology, thus intertwining religion with philosophy and history. A characteristic feature of the mythological basis of Greek art is its anthropomorphism, that is, the deep humanization of mythological images.
Monuments of ancient Greek art for the most part have not reached us in originals; many ancient statues are known to us from marble ancient Roman copies. During the heyday of the Roman Empire (1st-2nd centuries AD), the Romans sought to decorate their palaces and temples with copies of famous Greek statues and frescoes. Since almost all large Greek bronze statues were melted down during the years of the collapse of ancient society, and marble ones were mostly destroyed, it is often only by Roman copies, usually also inaccurate, that one can judge a number of masterpieces of Greek culture. Greek painting in the originals has also hardly survived. Frescoes of a late Hellenistic nature, sometimes reproducing earlier examples, are of great importance. Some idea of monumental painting is given by images on Greek vases. Written evidence is also of great importance, the most famous of which are:"Description of Hellas" by Pausanias,"Natural History" by Pliny"Paintings" of Philostrati, senior and junior,"Description of Statues" by Callistratus,"Ten Books on Architecture" by Vitruvius.
Art of Homeric Greece
(12th - 8th centuries BC)
This time was reflected in epic poems -"Iliad" and The Odyssey, which is believed to have been written by Homer. During the Homeric period, Greek society as a whole still retained the tribal system. Ordinary members of the tribe and clan were free farmers, partly shepherds. Slavery was episodic and patriarchal in nature, slave labor was used (especially at the beginning) mainly in the household of the tribal leader and military leader - the basileus. Basileus was the head of the tribe, and united in his person judicial, military and priestly power. He governed the community together with the council of elders - boule. On the most important occasions, a popular assembly called the agora was assembled.
The monumental architecture of ancient Greek temples, which originated in the Homeric period, used and in its own way reworked the type of megaron that had developed in Mycenae and Tiryns - a hall with a vestibule and a portico. The expressive ornamental character of the Aegean world was alien to the artistic consciousness of the ancient Greeks.
The earliest works of art that have come down to us are vases.“geometric style”, decorated with patterns painted with brown paint on the pale yellow background of the clay vessel. The most complete picture of this style is given by Dipylon vases. These are very large vessels, sometimes as tall as a person, and had a funeral or cult purpose. On Dipylon amphorae the ornamentation is especially abundant: the pattern most often consists of purely geometric motifs, in particular a meander braid (the meander ornament was preserved throughout the development of Greek art). Schematized plant and animal ornaments were also used.
An important feature of later Dipylon vases is the introduction of primitive plot images with schematized figures of people into the pattern. These plot motifs are very diverse: the ritual of mourning the deceased, a chariot race, sailing ships, etc.
The sculpture of this period has reached us onlybut in the form of small plastic works, mostly of a cult nature. These are small figurines depicting gods or heroes, made of terracotta, ivory or bronze.
"Horse" and " Hercules and the centaur", Olympia
"Plowman", Boeotia
"Apollo", Boeotia
The monumental sculpture of Homeric Greece has not reached our time. Its character can be judged from the descriptions of ancient authors. The main type of such sculpture were the so-called xoans - idols made of wood or stone.
By the 8th century BC. include the remains of monuments of early Greek architecture.
Temple of Artemis Orthia in Sparta (reconstruction)
The ruins of the temple in Thermos in Aetolia have been preserved andframe at Dreros on Crete. They used some traditions of Mycenaean architecture, mainly a general plan similar to a megaron: the hearth-altar was placed inside the temple, and 2 columns were placed on the facade. The most ancient of these structures had walls made of mud brick and a wooden frame on a stone base.
Greek Archaic Art
(7th-6th centuries BC)
The power of the head of the tribe - the basileus - dates back to the 8th century. BC. was greatly limited by the dominance of the tribal aristocracy - the eupatrides, who concentrated wealth, land, slaves in their hands - and then, in the 7th century. BC, disappeared completely. The archaic period became a time of fierce class struggle between the clan nobility and the people. The Eupatrides sought to enslave free community members, which could lead Greek society along the path of the eastern slave states. It is no coincidence that some monuments of this time resemble ancient Eastern art. The complete or partial victory of the broad mass of free peasants, artisans and merchants led to the establishment of the ancient version of a slave society.
During the 7th-6th centuries. BC. Greek settlements expanded - colonies were formed along the shores of the Mediterranean and Black Sea. Particularly important in the further history of ancient Greek culture were settlements in southern Italy and Sicily - the so-called Magna Graecia.
During the archaic period, a system of architectural orders emerged, which formed the basis for all further development. ancient architecture. At the same time, plot vase painting blossomed and the path to depicting a beautiful, harmoniously developed person in sculpture was gradually outlined. Also important is the composition of lyric poetry, which means interest in the world of a person’s personal feelings.
The evolution of Greek sculpture
In general, the art of the archaic period is conventional and schematic. Ancient myths and tales are widely reflected in the fine arts. Towards the end of the archaic period, themes taken from reality increasingly began to penetrate into art. By the end of the 6th century BC. classical trends begin to come into increasing conflict with the methods and principles of archaic art.
Even in ancient times, Greek art created a new type of building, which became a reflection of the ideas of the people - the Greek temple. The main difference from the temples of the Ancient East was that it was the center of the most important events in the public life of citizens. The temple was the repository of the public treasury and artistic treasures, the square in front of it was a place of meetings and celebrations. The architectural forms of the Greek temple did not develop immediately.
Types of Greek Temples
The temple erected to God always had its main façade facing east, and the temples dedicated to heroes deified after death faced west, towards kingdom of the dead. The simplest and oldest type of stone archaic temple was temple "in the antas." It consisted of one small room - pump, open to the east. On its façade, between antami(i.e., the projections of the side walls) 2 columns were placed. It was not suitable for the main structure of the polis, so it was most often used as a small structure, for example, the treasury in Delphi:
A more advanced type of temple was prostyle, on the front facade of which 4 columns were placed. IN amphiprostyle a colonnade adorned both the front and rear facades, where there was an entrance to the treasury.The classic type of Greek temple was peripter, i.e. the temple had a rectangular shape and was surrounded on all 4 sides by a colonnade. The basic elements of the peripter design are simple and deeply folk in origin. In its origins, the design goes back to wooden architecture with adobe walls. From here comes a gable roof and beams, columns rising to wooden posts. The architects of Ancient Greece sought to develop the artistic possibilities hidden in the design of the building. This is how a clear and integral, artistically meaningful architectural system emerged, which later, among the Romans, received the name warrants, which means order, structure.
In the Archaic era, the Greek order developed in two versions - Doric and Ionic. This corresponded to the two main local schools of art. Doric order embodied the idea of masculinity, and ionic- femininity. Sometimes in the Ionic order the columns were replaced by caryatids - statues of dressed women.
The Greek order system was not a stencil mechanically repeated in every decision. The order was a general system of rules, and the solution was always of a creative individual nature and was consistent not only with the specific tasks of construction, but also with the surrounding nature, and in the classical period - with other buildings of the architectural ensemble.
The Doric temple-peripterus was separated from the ground by a stone foundation - stereobat, which consisted of 3 steps. Login naos(a rectangular temple room) was located behind the colonnade on the side of the main facade and was decorated with a pronaos, reminiscent of a portico in design"Temple in Ants" Sometimes, in addition to the naos, there was also opisthodomous- a room behind the pump, with an exit towards the rear facade. Naos was surrounded on all sides by a colonnade -"pteron"(wing, peripter - winged temple on all sides).
The column was the most important part of the order. The column of the Doric order in the archaic period was squat and powerful - the height is equal to 4-6 lower diameters. The column trunk was cut through a series of longitudinal grooves - flute. The columns of the Doric order are not geometrically precise cylinders; in addition to the general narrowing upward, they had some uniform thickening at the height of one third - entasis.
The Ionic order column is taller and thinner in proportions, its height is equal to 8-10 lower diameters. It had a base from which it seemed to grow. The flutes, which in the Doric column converged at an angle, in the Ionic column were separated by flat cuts of edges - this made the number of vertical lines seem to double, and due to the fact that the grooves in the Ionic column were cut deeper, the play of light and shadow on it was richer and more picturesque. The capital had an echinus forming 2 graceful curls.
The Doric order system in its main features developed already in the 7th century. BC. (Peloponnese and Magna Graecia), the Ionic order developed towards the end of the 7th century. BC. (Asia Minor and island Greece). Later, in the classical era, the third order was developed - Corinthian - close to the Ionic and distinguished by the fact that in it the columns were more elongated in proportion (up to 12 lower diameters) and were topped with a lush basket-shaped capital, composed of floral ornaments - stylized acanthus leaves - and curls (volutes).
Earlier temples often had capitals that were too heavy or column trunks that were too short; the aspect ratio of the temple was often disproportionate. Gradually all the shortcomings disappeared.
Temple of Hera (Heraion) in Olympia, 7th century. BC.
Temple of Apollo in Corinth (Peloponnese), 2nd floor. 6th century BC.
Coloring found its place in archaic architecture; the main colors were most often combinations of red and blue. The tympanums of the pediments and the backgrounds of the metopes, triglyphs and other parts of the entablature were painted, and the sculpture was also painted.
Temples of Ionia, i.e. cities on the coast of Asia Minor and the islands were particularly large in size and luxurious in decoration. This was reflected in the connection with the culture of the East. These temples turned out to be away from the main line of development of Greek architecture. Classic architecture developed everything best sides Ionic order, but remained alien to lush luxury; this feature was developed only in the Hellenistic era. The most famous example of archaic temples in Ionia is the temple of Artemis in Ephesus (2nd half of the 6th century BC) - diptera, more than 100 m in length
Model of a temple in Istanbul in Miniaturk Park
The Archaic period was a period of flourishing of artistic crafts, especially ceramics. Usually vases were covered with artistic painting. In the 7th and especially in the 6th century. BC. A system of permanent forms of vases developed that had different purposes. The amphora was intended for oil and wine, the krater was for mixing water with wine during a feast, they drank wine from the kylix, and incense was stored in the lekythos for libations on the graves of the dead. During the early archaic period (7th century BC), a style imitating the East dominated in Greek vase painting; a number of ornaments were borrowed from the East. In the 6th century. BC. the so-called black-figure vase painting arrived. The patterned ornament was replaced by a clear silhouette pattern.
Black-figure vase painting reached its greatest flowering in Attica. The name of one of the suburbs of Athens, famous in the 6th and 5th centuries. BC. by its potters, - Keramik - became the name of products made from baked clay.
Crater of Clytius, made in the workshop of Ergotim (560 BC) or Vase of Francois
The most famous Attic vase painter is Exekius. Among him best works a drawing on an amphora depicting Ajax and Achilles playing dice and an image of Dionysus in a boat (bottom of the kylix):The vase paintings of another no less famous master Andokidas are known for their realistic motifs, which sometimes conflict with the techniques of planar archaic vase painting: an amphora with the image of Hercules and Cerberus (Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts).
The paintings of late black-figure vases provided, for the first time in Greek art, examples of a multi-figure composition in which everything characters were in real relationship. As realism grew in Greek art, vase painting showed a tendency to overcome flatness. This led around 530. BC. to a whole revolution in the technique of vase painting - to the transition to red-figure vase painting, with light figures on a black background. Excellent examples were created in Andokida's workshop, but all possibilities were fully revealed already during the period of classical art.
The development of archaic sculpture was contradictory. Almost until the very end of the archaic period, strictly frontal and motionless statues of gods were created. This type of statue includes:
Hera from the island of Samos andArtemis from the island of Delos
Goddess with Pomegranate, Berlin Museum
The seated figures of the rulers were distinguished by their oriental spirit ( archons) placed along the road to ancient temple Apollo (Didymeion) near Miletus (in Ionia). These schematic, geometrically simplified stone statues were made very late - in the middle of the 6th century. BC. The images of the rulers are interpreted as solemn cult images. Such statues were often of colossal size, also imitating in this sense the Ancient East. Particularly typical of the archaic period were upright naked statues of heroes, or, later, warriors - kouros. The appearance of the image of kouros was of great importance for the development of Greek sculpture; the image of a strong, courageous hero or warrior was associated with the development of civic consciousness and new artistic ideals. The general development of the kouros type went towards ever greater fidelity to proportions and a move away from conventional decorative ornamentation. This required radical changes in human consciousness, which occurred after the reforms of Cleisthenes and the end of the Greco-Persian wars.