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Author | : Jay Hambidge |
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Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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Presents author's theory that the Parthenon was designed according to the principles of dynamic symmetry.
Author | : Jay Hambidge |
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Total Pages | : 103 |
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Genre | : Architecture |
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Author | : Joan Breton Connelly |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 521 |
Release | : 2014-01-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0385350503 |
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Built in the fifth century b.c., the Parthenon has been venerated for more than two millennia as the West’s ultimate paragon of beauty and proportion. Since the Enlightenment, it has also come to represent our political ideals, the lavish temple to the goddess Athena serving as the model for our most hallowed civic architecture. But how much do the values of those who built the Parthenon truly correspond with our own? And apart from the significance with which we have invested it, what exactly did this marvel of human hands mean to those who made it? In this revolutionary book, Joan Breton Connelly challenges our most basic assumptions about the Parthenon and the ancient Athenians. Beginning with the natural environment and its rich mythic associations, she re-creates the development of the Acropolis—the Sacred Rock at the heart of the city-state—from its prehistoric origins to its Periklean glory days as a constellation of temples among which the Parthenon stood supreme. In particular, she probes the Parthenon’s legendary frieze: the 525-foot-long relief sculpture that originally encircled the upper reaches before it was partially destroyed by Venetian cannon fire (in the seventeenth century) and most of what remained was shipped off to Britain (in the nineteenth century) among the Elgin marbles. The frieze’s vast enigmatic procession—a dazzling pageant of cavalrymen and elders, musicians and maidens—has for more than two hundred years been thought to represent a scene of annual civic celebration in the birthplace of democracy. But thanks to a once-lost play by Euripides (the discovery of which, in the wrappings of a Hellenistic Egyptian mummy, is only one of this book’s intriguing adventures), Connelly has uncovered a long-buried meaning, a story of human sacrifice set during the city’s mythic founding. In a society startlingly preoccupied with cult ritual, this story was at the core of what it meant to be Athenian. Connelly reveals a world that beggars our popular notions of Athens as a city of staid philosophers, rationalists, and rhetoricians, a world in which our modern secular conception of democracy would have been simply incomprehensible. The Parthenon’s full significance has been obscured until now owing in no small part, Connelly argues, to the frieze’s dismemberment. And so her investigation concludes with a call to reunite the pieces, in order that what is perhaps the greatest single work of art surviving from antiquity may be viewed more nearly as its makers intended. Marshalling a breathtaking range of textual and visual evidence, full of fresh insights woven into a thrilling narrative that brings the distant past to life, The Parthenon Enigma is sure to become a landmark in our understanding of the civilization from which we claim cultural descent.
Author | : James Fergusson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : Architecture, Classical |
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Author | : Jay Hambridge |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1924 |
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Author | : Jay 1867-1924 Hambidge |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-07-18 |
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ISBN | : 9781019456934 |
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Originally published in 1924, Hambidge's groundbreaking study of ancient Greek architecture revolutionized the field of design and inspired generations of artists and scholars. His analysis of the principles of dynamic symmetry, as it is reflected in the design of the Parthenon and other classic temples, shows how the Greeks achieved a perfect balance of beauty and mathematical precision. This book is an essential reading for anyone interested in architecture, geometry, and the history of design. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : Fiona Macdonald |
Publisher | : Peter Bedrick Books |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780872263611 |
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An illustrated survey of the construction and history of the Parthenon in ancient Greece.
Author | : Antony Spawforth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780500051429 |
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An all-encompassing portrait of the design and architectural elements of ancient Greek monuments summarizes the latest thinking on temple building while offering insight into the historical and cultural contexts of key constructions, in a volume complemented by a gazetteer of all known colonnaded temples.
Author | : Ian Jenkins |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780674023888 |
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From Athens and Arcadia on one side of the Aegean Sea and from Ionia, Lycia, and Karia on the other, this book brings together some of the great monuments of classical antiquity--among them two of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the later temple of Artemis at Ephesos and the Mausoleum at Halikarnassos. With 250 photographs and specially commissioned line drawings, the book comprises a monumental narrative of the art and architecture that gave form, direction, and meaning to much of Western culture.
Author | : Ian Dennis Jenkins |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780674026926 |
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The Parthenon sculptures in the British Museum are unrivaled examples of classical Greek art, an inspiration to artists and writers since their creation in the fifth century bce. A superb visual introduction to these wonders of antiquity, this book offers a photographic tour of the most famous of the surviving sculptures from ancient Greece, viewed within their cultural and art-historical context. Ian Jenkins offers an account of the history of the Parthenon and its architectural refinements. He introduces the sculptures as architecture--pediments, metopes, Ionic frieze--and provides an overview of their subject matter and possible meaning for the people of ancient Athens. Accompanying photographs focus on the pediment sculptures that filled the triangular gables at each end of the temple; the metopes that crowned the architrave surmounting the outer columns; and the frieze that ran around the four sides of the building, inside the colonnade. Comparative images, showing the sculptures in full and fine detail, bring out particular features of design and help to contrast Greek ideas with those of other cultures. The book further reflects on how, over 2,500 years, the cultural identity of the Parthenon sculptures has changed. In particular, Jenkins expands on the irony of our intimate knowledge and appreciation of the sculptures--a relationship far more intense than that experienced by their ancient, intended spectators--as they have been transformed from architectural ornaments into objects of art.