The Temple Starts In Athens

The temple starts in Athens

Introduction

The part located in Athens (Greece) is a temple that was built for the protector of Athens, called Athena Partosos. It is an artistic movement of Greek art (Doric order) that belongs to the full classic period built in the 5th century.C (between 447 to.C and 432 A.C) By ichthino, calícrates and fidias. The full classic period takes place between 450 and 400 to.C. (The second half of the 5th century) and corresponds to the Golden Age of Athens and the Democratic Pericles period. Athens, stable, flourishing and rich, is constituted as the cultural reference of the entire classic Greece. Known as "sublime style". 

Developing

The architecture of ancient Greece is that produced by Greek speech peoples. Ancient Greek architecture is better known by the ‘temples’, many of which are mostly in ruins, but other intact, throughout the region. Ancient Greek architecture is distinguished by its standardized characteristics, both in structure and decoration. The architecture of ancient Rome emerged from that of Greece and maintained its influence in uninterrupted Italy until today.  From the Renaissance, the strengthening of classicism has kept alive not only the precise ways and ordered the details of Greek architecture.

If not also its concept of architectural beauty based on balance and proportion. The successive styles of the architecture of the Renaissance and neoclassical architecture followed and adapted old Greek styles faithfully in a faithful way.

Located in the highest part of the acropolis, it is the most important temple of the whole, it was dedicated to the patron saint of Athens, in its invocation of protector of the virgins. It was built to replace a smaller previous temple that had been destroyed and its construction took 16 years. Fidias commissioned its construction to Ictino and Calícrates, reserving for him.

The coordination of the complete sculptural program that decorated the temple and that he conceived as a tribute to the Athenian people and their patron. After falling the classical world, it was converted into a Byzantine church and later, after being Athens conquered by the Ottomans became a mosque, in turn it was turned into powderier, which a time later flew a Venetian bomb exploiting and damaging the temple irreparable. It is an octástilo, the only one in all of Greece, with 8 columns on the two shortest and 17 facades on the sides. It is also a periptera – with columns for all its perimeter.

It consists of a double cella with pronaos and opistodomos, but with 6 columns prostile. Regarding the dimensions of the building, lifted on 3 stands, they are 69.5m of length, by 30.9m width, with columns that reach 10.4m high. The Sekos, the closed area and surrounded by the peristyle, had a 19 -meter width. The central nave measured 10m width. Inside the cella on the east side, the colonnade was set in the form of "U" and was composed of 9 columns with an entertainment between each of them, on the long sides of the "u". Three columns with two entertainment formed the short side. 

In the west zone, at the bottom of the 4 column colonnate, there was the basis of the statue, for the cult of Athena partans with a wide, shallow pond, which produced a brightness effect by water in front of this. Water also fulfilled the function of maintain. The East Cella was dedicated to Athena Polia. The east facade: its pediment is very little preserved; Keep your triglifos and metopas; His columns are Doric; PRONAOS WITH 6 DORICAL COLUMNS.

conclusion

The west facade, its pediment is more preserved than this one; It also retains triglifos and metopas; The columns are Doric; Opistodoms with 6 Doric columns; Highlights the use of drops. The plant, the opistodoms and the pronaos are preceded by 6 Doric columns; The cell is separated in 3 streets through a double colonnade; Behind is the part. Cella, the interior of this is the ‘House of Divinity’ and only certain people could enter (for example, the priests). There is the famous wood figure chrome with ivory and gold from Athena parties that is in the middle of the room and reaches the ceiling.