{"id":438,"date":"2016-03-25T08:57:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T12:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/?p=438"},"modified":"2016-03-25T08:57:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T12:57:13","slug":"noto-and-the-use-of-the-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/sicily\/noto-and-the-use-of-the-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"Noto and the Use of the Orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-439 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2016\/03\/IMAG0414-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMAG0414\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2016\/03\/IMAG0414-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2016\/03\/IMAG0414-84x150.jpg 84w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2016\/03\/IMAG0414-576x1024.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All of the classical temples that we saw on our trip across the island were of the Doric order. \u00a0Only in the remaining two columns of the Roman amphitheater in Catania did we even see any use of the Ionic in a classical structure. \u00a0However, much of the later architecture (medieval, baroque, and neoclassical) that we saw in the cities and towns often employed the Ionic, Corinthian, or a modified Doric. \u00a0When we visited Noto, I became very curious as to why such styles would spring up without having much apparent precedent in previous Greek Sicilian monuments. \u00a0It seems that the styles, instead of evolving in Sicily along with the rest of the formerly Greco-Roman world, were \u03b1imported from elsewhere in Europe. \u00a0It is given that the many peoples who dominated the island at one time or another brought with them their own aesthetics, including of architecture, but this constant domination denied, to some extent, the development of a uniquely Sicilian architecture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To explain it another way, the various architectural movements mentioned above were defined by certain by certain characteristics that the orders embodied. \u00a0For example, the baroque was all about being showy and grand, so the solid and monumental Doric was probably less appropriate than the Ionic or Corinthian. \u00a0Additionally, medieval architecture was all about achieving height and light, and the thick, imposing Doric columns might have counteracted this effect. \u00a0Whichever way we explain it, the lack of standard Doric columns in later architecture reveals the extent of Sicily\u2019s cultural domination in its obedience to standards and its apparent inability to develop a style of its own after the time of the Normans, despite the many cultures represented there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-440 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2016\/03\/IMAG0416-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"IMAG0416\" width=\"412\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2016\/03\/IMAG0416-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2016\/03\/IMAG0416-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2016\/03\/IMAG0416-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of the classical temples that 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