An architect active in Athens in the mid fifth century BC, named by ancient sources as co-architect of the Parthenon with Callicrates. Very little is known of his life beyond his credited buildings: he and a writer named Carpion produced a treatise on the Parthenon that has since been lost, and Pausanias credits him separately with the Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae. His reputation seems to have suffered after his patron Pericles fell from political favor, and the comic playwright Aristophanes appears to allude to him around 414 BC.
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Defining ContributionCo-architect, with Callicrates, of the Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis; also credited by Pausanias with the Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae, which mixed Doric, Ionic and the earliest known Corinthian column in one building. 1 Connections
In Style
Co-architect of the Parthenon with Callicrates, the canonical figure of Classical Greek architecture.
Works Designed
Ancient sources name Ictinus and Callicrates as co-architects; Callicrates is not separately entered in this atlas.
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Additional Source Ictinus (Wikipedia)Ictinus, works section
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Ictinus (Wikipedia)
- Ictinus, lead section
Ictinus, works section
co-architects of the Parthenon
- Ictinus, lead and career sections
- Ictinus, alternate transliteration
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