Greek Temples: White Marble, Orders, and Artistic Periods
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Greek temples were usually built in white marble.
Pranaos: the entrance
Naos: the main hall
Opisthodomos: was a black room
The three orders: Doric, Ionic, Corinthian
Archaic period: shows very little movement
Classical period: represents balance and ideal beauty
Hellenistic period: dynamic, expressive, emotional
1. Archaic period kore: una mano para arriba
2. Archaic period kouros: sujetando un ternero
Frisbi: classical period - diskobolus
Tres tios: hellenistic period - Laocoon and his sons
Manos rotas: archaic period - Canon of Polykleitos
Sin cabezas: Panathenaic procession