the emergence of the classical

Michael Djordjevitch

Classical Architecture with its related arts of Sculpture and Painting comes to its first maturity in the World of Fifth Century B.C. Athens.  

This course focuses on introducing students to the material and cultural evidence for the emergence of the Classical in Architecture, that artistic/cultural lineage which, building on its Athenian achievement, culminates in the great works of Ancient Greece and Rome.  

The foundations of the Athenian achievement, however, can be found in much earlier eras.  This course charts and explores these roots.  We shall follow this trajectory from its earliest beginnings and through the Bronze Ages: from the Egypt of the Old Kingdom to Minoan Crete, Mycenaean Greece and Hittite Anatolia.  We then face the mystery of Troy and the great divide of the subsequent long Dark Age, arriving in good time to the recovery, and subsequent flourishing of this artistic/cultural legacy of the close-to-lost High Civilization of the Bronze Age in the Archaic and Classical Periods of Ancient Greece. 

The following videos were recorded during the Grand Central Atelier Spring 2016 course, and includes an additional four lectures.

 

THE emergence of the classical 1

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THE EMERGENCE OF THE CLASSICAL 7

THE EMERGENCE OF THE CLASSICAL 9

THE emergence of the classical 2

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THE EMERGENCE OF THE CLASSICAL 8

THE EMERGENCE OF THE CLASSICAL 10

 

INSTAGRAM

'EIRENE' (Peace) Capriccio after Bernini's sketch for the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament in St. Peter's and a cupola from Madison Square Garden by Stanford White. RWC Atelier 2023 "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called childre
Sometimes sketching random things-imaginary designs, buildings in Rome from Cipriani's illustrated et al keeps my hand in practice and the miles going g by on the train and after leads to design ideas for real projects-really doodling with a purpose.
One of the lesser known courtyards of Rome just down the street from the Trevi Fountain-the side loggia of the home of the Accademia di S. Luca in Rome. Imagine entering this every day with Borromini as your professor...
The Villa Medici in Rome, home to the French Academy since 1803. All the great Rome prize winners worked in this building sending their rigorous and painterly surveys of the Roman and Greek monuments back to Paris (see previous post). I remember seei
Santi Luca e Martina in Rome. Cortona's great church in the Roman Forum next to the arch of Septimus Severus and church of the Academia di S. Luca, the world's first academy of fine art. It has been a focus of study for many years since it was first
The sublime student work(!) Of Emmanuel Brune, 1er Grand Prix 1863 at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. The first image sits beside my drawing table to remind me of the standard to aim for in design and delineation...