Parthenon Optical Illusions Explanation Challenged by New Mathematics
For generations, the Parthenon has been celebrated as a masterpiece that appears straight because its builders subtly made it curved. According to a new analysis this widely accepted notion of the reason for the building’s straight appearance fails the mathematical test. What the research disputes is not the fact that the building has different forms, but that its appearance was an intentional design trick.
The argument can be traced back to the Roman author Vitruvius, who talked about Greek architecture several centuries after the Parthenon was finished. Vitruvius said that if the platform was horizontal, it would look as if it was sagging, so the builders elevated the middle section of the stylobate, which is the flat part of the base of the temple. Later authors recognized the same reasons for the slight bulging of the columns, called entasis, and for the thicker corner columns.
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Historical photograph showing the curvature of the Parthenon’s stylobate, photographed by G. Fougeres in 1910. (Public domain)
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