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1 Roman Art & Architecture
TEMPLES

2 GREEK TEMPLES CHARACTERISTICS Monumental Proportionate East-West alignment Peripteral Raised on 3 steps Architectural order Architectural style

3 1. Monumental. Greek temples are huge and magnificent

4 2. Proportionality Pythagorean Golden Ratio
Euclid translated to geometry Phidias translated it to architecture

5 GREEK TEMPLES The Parthenon, Athens Reconstruction of the Parthenon

6 Dawn in the Parthenon, Athens. East-West axis (facing east)
3. East- West alignment Dawn in the Parthenon, Athens. East-West axis (facing east)

7 4. peripteral Think of perimeter. Peri means “around”. You can walk right around a peripteral temple in a colonnade (sheltered walkway) called a peristyle.

8 5. Raised on 3 steps stylobate is the floor of the temple Other 2 steps are the stereobate

9 6. Architectural order Doric Ionic Corinthian
architrave Plain capital volutes acanthus (ram-horns) leaves fluted or unfluted shaft drums no base base base stylobate

10 7. Architectural Style Count the columns of the facade in Greek
Tetrastyle (4) Hexastyle (6) Octostyle (8) Decastyle (10)

11 ETRUSCAN or TUSCAN TEMPLES
Characteristics Frontal Raised on a podium Accessed by flight of steps Different plan

12 Rome was founded in 753BC But Italy was already inhabited by a variety of cultures: Native Italic peoples like the Samians, Oscans and Umbrians Celts (Gauls) in the northern Alpine region Greeks in the South and Sicily and the most dominant in the vicinity of Rome were the ETRUSCANS who were a Punic people (Phoenicians originally)

13 Terracotta model of an Etruscan temple at Veii, near Rome.
1. Frontal Raised on a podium Accessed by steps 4. Different plan

14 Tuscan Temple v Greek Temple

15 3 Vitruvian Principles of Architecture
Vitruvius was a Roman architect of the Augustan period who wrote a famous book called De Architectura (On Architecture). According to the Vitruvian scheme of architecture a building must conform to 3 principles. 3 Vitruvian principles of architecture: firmitas - it must be made of durable material utilitas - it must be functional venustas - it must be beautiful

16 Maison Carree, Nimes, France
The Vitruvian temple is a hybrid of the Tuscan and Greek temples

17 Roman Rectangular Temple
FRONTAL PERIPTERAL Tuscan Temple Greek Temple

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