Whenever you read about early art history, there's always a huge chapter devoted to ancient Greek column style. WHY? What is so fucking important about whether a column is Corinthian or not? Is it a conspiracy? Nobody cares about this shit.
>>1363646
Historians are obsessed with what was left behind, not necessarily what is or was important. That's why the Renaissance gets it's own chapter in history books when it was just fucking paintings and sculptures, it left stuff behind for historians to obsess over.
>>1363646
Try reading some early Japanese history. Not even art history, just regular history. 10 000 years of pottery with ropes on it and nothing else, because nothing else was left behind.
>>1364159
Never thought about this before. Did any ancient Egyptian texts about daily life/customs exist or survive?
>>1364185
Herodotus
>>1363646
m8 look at any old tenement or palace
90% chance you find one of those columns
it's because antiquity comes up again in the renaissance, then continues into the baroque until the french take over culturally, then even the french get into it before the turn of the 19th century
>>1364187
>Herodotus
Didn't know anything. Egypt was ancient to him too.
>>1363771
>That's why the Renaissance gets it's own chapter in history books when it was just fucking paintings and sculptures
What the fuck am I reading?
>>1363646
>Whenever you read about early art history, there's always a huge chapter devoted to ancient Greek column style. WHY? What is so fucking important about whether a column is Corinthian or not? Is it a conspiracy? Nobody cares about this shit.
Agreed, tuscan is the superior style
>>1364552
i think the problem is calling whole early modern era "renaissance", while it should be mostly used for specific art movement
>>1363646
Well, the development of the temple orders gives us a vector by which to trace the architectural developments of Greece as well as social changes between the LHIIIC and Archaic periods.
For instance, a detailed examination of temples and temple orders and various elements reveals that in all likelihood the trend of having colonnades and peristyles originated in Greek thought in Ephesus rather than in Egypt. Which is not to say Egypt or bronze age Greek architecture didn't play a roll or inspire the original Ephesian temples, but merely that we find startling continuity in Ephesus.
Additionally it seems most innovations were scattered but all consistently found their way to Ephesus. This pattern is only broken for the two centuries between the Persian conquest of Ephesus and it's liberation by Alexander the Great.
Anyways: Temples and temple orders are cool because they survive, they were the most important buildings the greeks made, and they were representative of dick-waving contests between cities.
>>1363646
Corinthian colums were actually popularized by Romans.
>>1364540
>Didn't know anything.
So he just wrote his book on Egypt out of pure imagination?
You do realise Egypt still existed in his day?
Because they know that pleb tier artists and architects love putting them everywhere, so might as well teach them about it.
>>1364564
tuscan order is just a inferior version of doric order
