Temple of Hera II
Title
Temple of Hera II
Date
ca. 450 BC and ca. 550 BC
Alternative Title or Name
Temple of Poseidon
Creator2
Aluzzo, Adrienne (photographer)
Work Type
built works
Work Location
Italy (nation)
Pesto (inhabited place)
Style/Period
Archaic (Greek)
Subject
temples (buildings)
columns (architectural elements)
Doric (architectural style)
Description
View of The Temple of Hera II (once thought to be the Temple of Poseidon), a Doric style temple in the city of Paestum, Italy. "The three Paestum temples are all in the Archaic Doric style of heavy columns with capitals that are squat, or as Goethe termed them, 'oppressive,' by the time the Parthenon was finished (438 B.C.), columns were elegantly slender, capitals had an alert, load-bearing profile, and refinement attended every detail, moreover, they were carved from Parian marble; Paestum's now crudely exposed shellstone shafts, it is only fair to say, were originally covered with lime stucco, as in Greece proper, the temples at Paestum face easterly so that the rising sun will awaken the statue within," from Architecture Week's Great Buildings Online.
Material/Medium
stone (rock)
Reproduction Type
digital photograph
Reproduction Source
jpg
Copyright Statement
(c) 2013 Lawrence Technological University. All images associated with the LTU Digital Collection are protected by United States copyright law. Duplication or sale of all or part of any of the data or images is not permitted without consent of the copyright holder.
ID Number
2013ita032
- Date Added
- June 5, 2013
- Collection
- LTU Digital Images
- Item Type
- VRA Core
- Tags
- Paestum, temples
- Citation
- “Temple of Hera II,” LTU Digital Images, accessed April 24, 2024, https://ltuimagecollection.omeka.net/items/show/17.