Bassæ

The temple of Apollo Epikourios – the helper – at Bassae, built in the fifth century BC, is located at an altitude of about 1130 metres on Mount Kotilio, in Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece. In the mid-1980s, the temple was reinforced for reasons of preservation-restoration by earthquake-resistant scaff...

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Main Author: Ida Soulard
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Language:fra
Published: École du Louvre 2013-03-01
Series:Les Cahiers de l'École du Louvre
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cel/535
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description The temple of Apollo Epikourios – the helper – at Bassae, built in the fifth century BC, is located at an altitude of about 1130 metres on Mount Kotilio, in Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece. In the mid-1980s, the temple was reinforced for reasons of preservation-restoration by earthquake-resistant scaffolding and covered by a gigantic canopy. Bassae is the name of the “temple-scaffolding-tent”, of this complex object resulting from the superimposition of three different static systems. This object only exists in its links. It does not strictly belong to any field: neither archaeology nor architecture nor history nor preservation-restoration. Such an object exceeds any of these categories. In order to grasp this “body in crisis” in all of its dimensions it is necessary to overhaul our theoretical frameworks and to elaborate the premises of a “prosthetic history of art”. What we will propose here is the formulation of a theoretical extension, a return to objects, aiming at the construction of a “natural history of art” yet to be written.
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