History of architectural orders in ancient Greece is a subject that usually is faced only on the formal point of view, trying to reconstruct lines of development from wooden architecture or from architectural order pertaining to other civilizations or historical periods. A recent book by M. Wilson Jones gives a more comprehensive approach. Architectural Greek orders did not observe mechanical laws of modification, but the architects made them better on the formal point of view, with originality. This paper tries to deepen some aspects bound to the origins of Greek architecture, emerging from the new considerations by Wilson Jones, particularly about the first peripteral temples, the forms of capitals and the mouldings, and the financing systems in monumental Greek architecture of archaic period, the connection between decorative forms and ideological aspects.
Lo studio dello sviluppo degli ordini architettonici nella Grecia antica è di solito affrontato principalmente dal punto di vista formale, cercando di ricostruire linee di derivazione dall’architettura lignea o da ordini architettonici di culture o periodi diversi. Un approccio più ampio, proposto nel recente libro di M. Wilson Jones, consente di comprendere il valore di invenzione apportato dagli architetti greci dell’inizio dell’età arcaica e il connesso sistema di sviluppo, non meccanico ma collegato ad un costante miglioramento formale. Questo articolo intende approfondire alcuni aspetti legati alle origini dell’architettura greca partendo dalle nuove considerazioni proposte da Wilson Jones, in particolare per quanto riguarda i templi peripteri più antichi, le forme dei capitelli e delle modanature, i sistemi di finanziamento dell’architettura monumentale in età arcaica, il collegamento tra forme decorative e significati ideologici.
Le origini degli ordini architettonici classici. Considerazioni in margine a una recente opera di M. Wilson Jones
BARRESI, PAOLO
2016-01-01
Abstract
History of architectural orders in ancient Greece is a subject that usually is faced only on the formal point of view, trying to reconstruct lines of development from wooden architecture or from architectural order pertaining to other civilizations or historical periods. A recent book by M. Wilson Jones gives a more comprehensive approach. Architectural Greek orders did not observe mechanical laws of modification, but the architects made them better on the formal point of view, with originality. This paper tries to deepen some aspects bound to the origins of Greek architecture, emerging from the new considerations by Wilson Jones, particularly about the first peripteral temples, the forms of capitals and the mouldings, and the financing systems in monumental Greek architecture of archaic period, the connection between decorative forms and ideological aspects.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.