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The Parthenon. Koriand’R Comegys Nii Codjoe Felicia Blake Cameron Fontaine Kevin Thompson Domenic Spencer. Pediments and Coloration. What is a Pediment. low-pitched triangular gable
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The Parthenon Koriand’R Comegys Nii Codjoe Felicia Blake Cameron Fontaine Kevin Thompson Domenic Spencer Pediments and Coloration
What is a Pediment • low-pitched triangular gable • in the Grecian or Greek Revival style of architecture.
Impact of the pediments • The pediments are designed to evoke an “impression”. These sculptures are three-dimensional sculptures that are life-sized and free-standing. • Unlike the frieze, the pediments describe what has to be imagined. The sculptor of these pediments wants the viewer to see the story lines but at the same time use their imagination.
The pediments gave an opportunity for the beholder to view the life of the Gods. This is visually seen in the outer boundary of the pediments. Perception of the pediments
Significance of the Sculptures • A feature that sets the Parthenon apart from all the other temples is the subject matter of the sculpture. • The type of sculptures in the Parthenon are not found anywhere else in Greek classical art. • The unique quality of the Parthenon are brought on by coincidence. This kind of good coincidence rarely happens.
An effect that causes the sculptures to appear more life-like is the dramatic cropping of some of the figures. • It is a ‘device that suggest immediacy, a movement cut off ‘in the act’. • Dramatic cropping has an influential impact, unlike
Construction of the Sculptures • Built 438 BCE to 432BCE • Carved from marble • The sculptures have a lean • Phidias, supervisor of sculptures and sculptors • Architects • Iktonis • Kallikreates
Size of Pediment and Sculptures • Pediment base approx. 80 ft and 12ft at center • The Pediment circumscribed the sculptures • Believed that the sculptures were carved in place • The sculpture were built to scale fitting in the Pediment
Phidias Sculpture Arrangement • The center is focus and most important part • As the sculptures get closer to the angles, they are less connected with the central scene • The central sculptures are standing and as they get closer to the angles they start to have kneeling, sitting and, laying postures. • The animals had just their head showing depending on location in the scene
Style and Aesthetics • The sculpture were dressed in light linen if the were dressed at all • Sculpted this way to dramatize the body posture • Detailed body parts, facial expression and movements • The sculptures were each assigned an angle in which the can relate to the other sculpture • The angles are symmetrical on either side oF the central structures
The East Pediment The East Pediment of the Parthenon Restored in Color from the Physical Evidence by: Holmes Bryant.
ZEUS King of the Olympian Gods
HERA Goddess of marriage and childbirth. Wife and sister of Zeus.
HEPHAISTOS God of time, metal working and the forge. Eldest son of Zeus and Athena.
ATHENA The goddess of wisdom, the practical arts, and warfare, and the protectress of cities.
NYX Greek goddess personifying night.
HESPERIDES Maidens who guarded the tree bearing golden apples that Gaea gave to Hera at her marriage to Zeus.
THREE FATES (Klotho, Lachesis, Atropos)
ATLAS Titan condemned by Zeus to support the heavens upon his shoulders.
HERMES Herald and messenger of the gods and the god of roads, commerce, invention, cunning, and theft.
NIKE Greek goddess of victory.
HELIOS God of the sun, represented as driving a chariot across the heavens.
HERAKLES A hero of extraordinary strength who won immortality.
The West Pediment: The Legend • Athena and Poseidon were competing for the protection of the city and each one offered presents. Poseidon struck the rock at the Acropolis with his trident (the three marks can be seen behind the Erectheion.) and a spring with salted water gushed up. With the blow also leaped the first horse, ready to serve the man faithfully, while Athena offered an olive tree. The legend tell us, that all the men of Athens voted for the gift of Poseidon and all the women, for the gift of Athena and because there was one woman more than the men, goddess Athena was selected and from her, the city took her name.
Coloration • Currently monochromatic, a golden brown • Evidence suggests an original Doric Polychromy