Ancient Greek Art

Periods

• Homeric period – 12 – 8 c. BCE

• Archaic period – 7 – 6 c. BCE

• Pre-Classic period – 490 – 440 BCE

• Classic period - 440 – 323 BCE

• Hellenistic period – 323 – 1 BCE

• Each period is divided into early, middle and late stage.

Homeric period

Monumental sculpture (Lions gate), funeral art, and small stylized

wooden sculptures of gods and heroes

Archaic period

• Kouros – male, nude, frontal, symmetric

• Kora – female, dressed, painted, frontal, symmetric

• Muscular• Always smile• 2 schools – Doric and

Ionian.

Classic period - Myron

Polykleitos - Doryphoros

• Javelin thrower• Worked in Argos• Wrote “Canon”,

describing the proportions of human body

Peonius - Nike

• Masters the motion through the arrangement of clothes

Skopas - Hercules

Phideas - Zeus

Phideas – Battle of Centurions

Praxiteles – Aphrodite of Knidos