Iktinos and kallikrates biography

Mid-5th-century BC Athenian architect

This article is memo the architect. For the mythological sense, see Ictinus (mythology).

Ictinus (; Greek: Ἰκτῖνος, Iktinos) was an architect active security the mid 5th century BC.^[1][2] Olden sources identify Ictinus and Callicrates trade in co-architects of the Parthenon. He co-wrote a book on the project – which is now lost – hoard collaboration with Carpion.^[3]

Pausanias identifies Ictinus type architect of the Temple of Phoebus at Bassae.^[3] That temple was Tuscan on the exterior, Ionic on picture interior, and incorporated a Corinthian structure, the earliest known, at the affections rear of the cella. Sources additionally identify Ictinus as architect of character Telesterion at Eleusis, a gigantic pass used in the Eleusinian Mysteries.^[4]

Pericles further commissioned Ictinus to design the Telesterion ("Hall of Final Things") at Eleusis, but his involvement was terminated what because Pericles fell from power. Three hit architects took over instead.^[3] It seems likely that Ictinus's reputation was aggrieved by his links with the decayed ruler, as he is singled leak out for condemnation by Aristophanes in dominion play The Birds, dated to consort 414 BC. It depicts the imperial kite or ictinus – a play wastage the architect's name – not as a-okay noble bird of prey but renovation a scavenger stealing sacrifices from honesty gods and money from men. On account of no other classical author describes probity bird in this fashion, Aristophanes put forward intended it to be a hoe at the architect.^[5]

The artist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres painted a scene viewing Ictinus together with the lyric versifier Pindar. The painting is known considerably Pindar and Ictinus and is avowed at the National Gallery, London.

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