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 (photograph)
Work Type
built works
Work Location
Italy (nation)
Pesto (inhabited place)
Style/Period
Archaic (Greek)
Subject
temples (buildings)
columns (architectural elements)
Doric (architectural style)
capitals (column components)
Description
View of Doric column with capital at the Temple of Ceres at 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
2013ita006
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