A Classroom
Frieze
 Frieze: The middle element layer of an
entablature, between the architrave and
the cornice.
The frieze may be plain or may be
composed of bas-relief (sculpted
figures and shallow- projecting
images).
Triglyphs and metopes also
make up decorative elements.
If decorated, the frieze may depict
a sequential narrative.
Detail on front of Athenian Treasury
Architectural
Components
 Tholos: A small, round building. Sometimes built underground, as
in a Mycenaean tomb.
 Relief Sculpture: An artwork where a modeled form is raised, or
in sunken-relief lowered, from a flat background from which the
main elements of the composition project (or sink).
 Pediment: A triangular gable found over the narrow ends of
buildings. Formed by an entablature and the sloping roof or a
raking cornice. Decorated with sculpted figures, carved either
freestanding or in relief.
 Entablature: In Classical orders the horizontal elements above the
columns and capitals, consisting of architrave, a frieze and a
cornice.
 Architrave: A module of masonry, supporting the superstructure
running from the top of the column capitals.
Construction of Friezes
 It has been recognized that the Siphnian Treasury
friezes would have played an important role in the
initial development of the continuous narrative frieze.
Tholos Temple of
Athena Pronaia
 Subject on the frieze is the Battle of the Amazons and the
Centaurs