Iktinos

Iktinos (or Ictinus) was an architect active in the mid 5th century BC. [cite book | first=Leland M. | last=Roth | year=1993 | title=Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History and Meaning | edition=First | publisher=Westview Press | location=Boulder, CO | id=ISBN 0-06-430158-3 | pages=203] [cite journal | first = F. E. | last = Winter | year =1980 | title = Tradition and innovation in Doric design: the work of Iktinos | journal = American Journal of Archaeology | issue = 4 | pages = 399–416 | doi = 10.2307/504069 | volume = 84] Ancient sources identify Iktinos and Kallikrates as co-architects of the Parthenon.

Pausanias identifies Iktinos as architect of the Temple of Apollo at Bassae. That temple was Doric on the exterior, Ionic on the interior, and incorporated a Corinthian column, the earliest known, at the center rear of the cella. Sources also identify Iktinos as architect of the Telesterion at Eleusis, a gigantic hall used in the Eleusinian Mysteries.

The artist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres painted a scene showing Iktinos together with the lyric poet Pindar. The painting is known as "Pindar and Ictinus" and is exhibited at the National Gallery, London.

See also

* Kallikrates

References