Erechtheion

The Erechtheion

The Erechtheion, 421-405 B.C.E. (Classical Greek), Acropolis, Athens
Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Steven Zucker and Beth Harris.

Art History Final: The Erechtheion

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Fly above the Acropolis - a sacred hill in the heart of Athens with the Parthenon on its peak. Beside it is a smaller temple known as the Erechtheion. It's named after Erechtheus, a mythical king of Athens. The ancients believed that the Gods Athena and Poseidon once walked here.

Step inside and you can find out how it was specially designed to preserve the sacred mythology of Athens. The Erechtheion is an enduring monument to the ancient history of this extraordinary city.

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Colors of Ancient Europe – Caryatid from the Erechtheion in Athens

A caryatid is a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head. The Greek term karyatides literally means maidens of Karyai, an ancient town of Peloponnese. Karyai had a famous temple dedicated to the goddess Artemis in her aspect of Artemis Karyatis: As Karyatis she rejoiced in the dances of the nut-tree village of Karyai, those Karyatides, who in their ecstatic round-dance carried on their heads baskets of live reeds, as if they were dancing plants.

Some of the earliest known examples were found in the treasuries of Delphi, dating to about the 6th century BC, but their use as supports in the form of women can be traced back even earlier, to ritual basins, ivory mirror handles from Phoenicia, and draped figures from archaic Greece.

The best-known and most-copied examples are those of the six figures of the Caryatid Porch of the Erechtheion on the Acropolis at Athens. One of those original six figures, removed by Lord Elgin in the early 19th century, is now in the British Museum in London. The Acropolis Museum holds the other five figures

Although of the same height and build, and similarly attired and coiffed, the six Caryatids are not the same: their faces, stance, draping, and hair are carved separately; the three on the left stand on their right foot, while the three on the right stand on their left foot. Their bulky, intricately arranged hairstyles serve the crucial purpose of providing static support to their necks, which would otherwise be the thinnest and structurally weakest part.

The Romans also copied the Erechtheion caryatids, installing copies in the Forum of Augustus and the Pantheon in Rome, and at Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli. Another Roman example, found on the Via Appia, is the Townley Caryatid.

Renaissance and after

In Early Modern times, the practice of integrating caryatids into building facades was revived, and in interiors they began to be employed in fireplaces, which had not been a feature of buildings in Antiquity and offered no precedents. Early interior examples are the figures of Hercules and Iole carved on the jambs of a monumental fireplace in the Sala della Jole of the Doge's Palace, Venice, about 1450. In the following century Jacopo Sansovino, both sculptor and architect, carved a pair of female figures supporting the shelf of a marble chimneypiece at Villa Garzoni, near Padua. No architect mentioned the device until 1615, when Palladio's pupil Vincenzo Scamozzi included a chapter devoted to chimneypieces in his Idea della archittura universale. Those in the apartments of princes and important personages, he considered, might be grand enough for chimneypieces with caryatid supporters, such as one he illustrated and a similar one he installed in the Sala dell'Anticollegio, also in the Doge's Palace.

In the 16th century, from the examples engraved for Sebastiano Serlio's treatise on architecture, caryatids became a fixture in the decorative vocabulary of Northern Mannerism expressed by the Fontainebleau School and the engravers of designs in Antwerp. In the early 17th century, interior examples appear in Jacobean interiors in England; in Scotland the overmantel in the great hall of Muchalls Castle remains an early example. Caryatids remained part of the German Baroque vocabulary (illustration, right) and were refashioned in more restrained and Grecian forms by neoclassical architects and designers, such as the four terracotta caryatids on the porch of St Pancras New Church, London (1822).

Many caryatids lined up on the facade of the 1893 Palace of the Arts housing the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. In the arts of design, the draped figure supporting an acanthus-grown basket capital taking the form of a candlestick or a table-support is a familiar cliché of neoclassical decorative arts. The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota has caryatids as a motif on its eastern facade.

In 1905 American sculptor Augustus Saint Gaudens created a caryatid porch for the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York in which four of the eight figures (the other four figures holding only wreaths) represented a different art form, Architecture, Painting, Sculpture, and Music .

Auguste Rodin's 1881 sculpture Fallen Caryatid Carrying her Stone (part of his monumental The Gates of Hell work) shows a fallen caryatid. Robert Heinlein described this piece in Stranger in a Strange Land: Now here we have another emotional symbol... for almost three thousand years or longer, architects have designed buildings with columns shaped as female figures... After all those centuries it took Rodin to see that this was work too heavy for a girl... Here is this poor little caryatid who has tried — and failed, fallen under the load.... She didn't give up, Ben; she's still trying to lift that stone after it has crushed her...

The Erechtheion / Acropolis -Athens, Greece

You can see the famous Caryatids but they are replicas. The original Caryatids are in the Acropolis Museum. April 29, 2011.

Caryatid and column from the Erechtheion

Caryatid (South Porch) and Ionic Column (North Porch), Erechtheion on the Acropolis, Athens, marble, 421-407 B.C.E., Classical Period (British Museum, London); Mnesicles may have been the architect. Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.

CARYATIDS OF GREECE (with Greek subs)

The story of the 6 Caryatids of Erechtheion Temple through a short motion picture produced by J.A Productions.

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Monuments in Watercolor Ep # 04 Porch of the Maidens (at Erechtheion, Athens, Greece)

In the 4th episode of our 'Monuments in Watercolor' series, I invite you to look at the ruin of the Erechtheion temple, located at the Athenian Acropolis in Greece.

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Landmarks of Athens | Where Women Hold the Ceiling | The Erechtheion

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Erechtheum in Athens Greece

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The Erechtheion (3D) -The old Palladas temple

This video present the Erechtheion (Greek: Ἐρέχθειον), an ancient Greek temple on the north side of the Acropolis of Athens, in 3D stereoscopic type (you need red-cyan glasses).

A part of a documentary about Ancient Greek Sites. English tranlation Natalie Margarites, and voice over in English Kostas Gus Georgilas. A movie by EleftheriosK. More info video-books.gr.

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Acropolis Museum and Erechtheion

The music is an extended version of Forever by Brian Culbertson. The photos were taken between 2015-18, and are mine except for seven I found on the internet that I thought added to the presentation. I thank all the photographers for their artistry, and good shots.

This is the first of two presentations about the Acropolis Museum in Athens; its focus will be the museum's achievements to protect, preserve, and display the remaining artifacts and treasures of the top and all slopes of the Acropolis to especially include the Erechtheion. The museum, which opened in 2009, is a fantastic place located on the South Slope of the Acropolis. The building is on pillars and seems to float over the hillside above an active archaeological site that is clearly visible through the museum's glass floors and glass walls. The top floor is angled so as to be aligned with the Parthenon on the heights above. The many treasures displayed on the museum's four levels date from the 5th century BC to the early Byzantine period, and range from large statues to tiny gold rings and coins, and delicate glassware Also included are many models, displays, and video presentations designed to increase knowledge and understanding.

The Erechtheion was built atop the Acropolis between 421-406 BC, so construction began some eleven years after completion of its neighbor, the Parthenon. The temple originally contained an altar dedicated to the worship of the Athenian king Erechtheus, hence its name. The temple was also home to the cult of Athena Polias, “Athena the Protectress” who guarded ancient Athens, the city named in her honor. The Porch of the Caryatids, also known as the “Porch of the Maidens”, on the South side of the temple is probably the best known part of this ancient building. Originally, there were six Caryatids; detailed statues of maidens that served as columns supporting the heavy stone roof of the porch. In the early 1800's Elgin removed and took one of the maidens, to London, but the rest of the story is that he botched an attempted removal of a second one and he left it broken and smashed on site. The remaining original Caryatids were skillfully removed for protection, and replaced with accurately detailed replicas. The originals, including the partially destroyed one, are now proudly and brilliantly displayed on a magnificent porch high above the museum floor.

The Erechtheion

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Parthenon - Erechtheion- Acropolis - Athens Greece

The Erechtheion on the Acropolis

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Greece - Athens - Views of the Nike Apteron temple and Erechtheion (Acropolis)

Views of the Nike Apteron temple and Erectheon (Acropolis), Athens, Greece.

The Erechtheion on the Acropolis

The Erechtheion as seen today was built between 421 and 407 BC. On the north side, there is a large porch with columns, and on the south, the famous Porch of the Maidens, with six draped female figures (caryatids) as supporting columns.

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Greece - Athens - Views of the Parthenon and Erechtheion (Acropolis)

Views of the Parthenon and Erectheon (Acropolis), Athens, Greece.

Erechtheion, Acropolis of Athens