ARCHIMEDES:The Great Mechanic Not much is known about Archimede’s life.He was born in Syracuse on the eastern coast of Sicily. His father was an astronomer named Feidias.His family was probably quite prosperous‚ despite many contrary beliefs and opinions‚as he was accompanied by servants wherever he went and also travelled‚ which at that time was very costly. Unlike different spiritual men of his time‚he did not travel to other countries‚ except one‚ and that the city of Alexandria in Egypt
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information to the history of Leonardo Da Vinci art and interest in the architecture of the human body. Era of faith and realism brings about theory of modern sciences in art. (TRANSACTIONS OF FAMENA XXXV-2 (2011) Karl-Hans Laermann) (Marcus Vitruvius‚ De Architectura‚ Book III‚ Chapter 1‚ p 3) http://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu
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According to the scholar John Onians‚ columns are a material means of expression that helped formulate and develop man’s relationship with gods.[i] Their origins are in Greece‚ but they were codified in Italy. Columns are first described by Vitruvius (De Architectura‚ 25 BC)‚ then by Alberti (De Re Architectura “On The Art of Building”‚ 1443)‚ by Serlio[ii] (7 Libri in 1540)‚ Vignola (The Five Orders of Architecture‚1563) and finally by Palladio himself (Quattro Libri‚ 1570). Onians posits that
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The Ancient Greek Period The Parthenon The Parthenon is part of a large sanctuary‚ situated on one of the highest areas of the Greek city Athena: the Acropolis. The Parthenon reflects the climax of the Ancient Greek architecture because of the balance and the elegance of the enormous building. The Temple was build between 448 and 432 before Christ‚ during the Ancient Greek Period and is an example of the Ionic temple architecture. Phidias built the temple for the Greek goddess Athena pathenos
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HUMANISM IN RENAISSANCE Renaissance is a term used to describe ‘rebirth’ (in French)‚ which began in Italy in late middle age and then spread to other parts of Europe. During the Renaissance people to question the Scholastic methods of that time and their questioning resulted as the birth of humanism. Humanism goes along with secularism in the sense that it makes humans beings‚ not God‚ the centre of attention. People began to do things because they enjoyed them rather than for God’s glory. It
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Alberti’s De re aedificatoria (On the Art of Building)‚ written around 1440 and arranged into ten books. Alberti’s treatise on architecture eventually became his most influential work in Latin‚ and it is believed to have begun as a commentary on Vitruvius’ De aedificatoria. It was also the assimilation of other writers ’ ideas since antiquity‚
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Greek and Roman architecture has produced some of the most iconic images in history. While the Romans borrowed and adapted the Greek style‚ both groups showed how to use their structural creations to define their own ideals. The Greeks developed three styles: Doric‚ Ionic and Corinthian. The main styles of Greek architecture are ionic and Doric. The Doric style subjugated in most of Greece and in Italy. The Doric styles are the more formal of the two‚ with the ionic style being more decorative and
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Greek architecture started to be restored to its previous glory in the 7th century. In the beginning Grecian architecture was constructed from mud and wood. However‚ as time progressed‚ the buildings began to be made of limestone‚ and those buildings remained. The limestone buildings are the buildings that we see today. In the latter Greek architecture‚ there are three time periods that are expressed. These periods are Classical‚ Hellenistic‚ and Roman. Limestone was excavated and cut into
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Table 1; Table 2; Table 2; Table 3; Table 3; Correlation coefficient formula; Table 1; correlation coefficient = 0.396078212 Table 2; correlation coefficient = 0.601557088 Table 3; correlation coefficient = 0.509917729 Working out; 6) Use your results to assess whether combined data from the whole class matches the “ideals” of the Vitruvian man more closely than measurements based entirely on yourself. When assessing the combined results‚ to that of the results
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HOW HAVE MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES AFFECTED THE VISUAL APPAERANCE OF A BUILDING? Despite the small scale in Bramente’s Tempietto has been constructed in such a way that it has all the rigorous proportions and symmetry of Classical structures‚ surrounded by slender Doric columns‚ surmounted by a dome. Artistically‚ the small chapel is regarded as one of the first and finest examples of architecture of the High Renaissance because of characteristics such as simplicity‚ harmony‚ symmetry and classical
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