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Transcript of Ancient Greek Art History Updated
The Art of Ancient Greece c. 900-31
BCE
Map of
AncientGreece
GeometricAnd
Orientalizing Art c. 900-600 BCE
Geometric amphora,two handled storage jar, 8th Century BCE;From Dipylon
Polyphemos Painter, amphora 675-650 BCEOrientalizing Style
Archaic Art (from the Greek word
archaios, meaning “old”)
(c. 600-480 BCE)
Priam Painter,Women at a Fountain House,c. 520-510 BCE.
Panathenaic Amphora with Runners, c. 520 BCE,Attributed to Euphiletos painter.
Exekias, amphora Achilles and Ajax playing a Board Game 540-530 BCEArchaic Style
Ajax on the right says, Tria “Three.” And Achilles counters with Tesara “four.” They are believed to be playing dice.
Exekias, amphora Achilles and Penthesilea 525 BCEArchaic Period
Euphronios (painter) and Euxsitheos (potter), Death of Sarpedon during the Trojan War,c. 515 BCE,From an Italian grave.
Detail of the Death of Sarpedon during the Trojan War, c.500 BCE
Classical Art (c.480-400 BCE)
Berlin Painter, bell krater, showing the Abduction of Europa by Zeus 490 BCE
.
New Style, what differences to you see?
Penthesilea Painter, cup interior showing Achilles and Penthesilea 455 BCE Late Archaic Classical
Death of the Children of Niobe, Niobid Painter, c. 455-450 BCE
Late Classical Art
(c. 400-350 BCE)
Reed Painter, Warrior by a Grave ( c.410 BCE)Classical period
Hellenistic Period(c.323-30 BCE)
Battle of Issus, from the House of the Faun, Pompeii, Also known as “Alexander Mosaic,” First Century CERoman copy from the Hellenistic period in Greece
Alexander the Great
Persian King Darius, from…
Sculpture Orientalizing
Style: 900-600 BCE
Terrace of the Lions, Delos, Italy , 7th Century BCE
Sculpture, Archaic Style c. 600-480 BCE
Note: Refer to your sculpture hand out
New York Kouros from Attica(c. 600 BCE)Archaic Sculpture period
Differences?Similarities?
Kroisos, from Anavysos, Greece, c. 530
New York Kouros from Attica(c. 600 BCE)
The Kritios Boy, from the Acropolis 480 BCEEarly Classical Style
Calf Bearer (Moschophoros), dedicated by Rhonbos on the Acropolis, Athens, c 560 BCE
Dying Warrior from the west pediment of the Temple of Aphaia, Aegina Greece, c 490 BCE
Peplos Kore 530 BCE)Archaic period
Classical Style Sculpture
c. 480-400 BCE(Early and
High)
Poseidon/Zeus, found in the sea off Cape Artemision 450 BCE)Early Classical Period
Myron, Diskobolos, (Disk Thrower), 460-450 BCEEarly Classical
Warrior from Riaci(c. 450 BCE)Early Classical Style
Polykleitos, Doryphoras (Spear Bearer) Classical styleRoman copy from Pompeii, original c. 450-400 BCE
Attributed to Polykleitos, Wounded Amazon, c. 430 BCE)Classical StyleWhy is thisAttributed to Polykleitos?
•c. 430 BCE)Classical Style
Stele of Hegeso, ( c. 410-400 BCE)Classical Style
Late Classical Period400-323 BCE
Praxiteles, Hermes and the infant Dionysos, from the temple of Hera, Olympia, Greece, c. 340, or copy of 0riginal work c. 330-270 by grandson.
Praxiteles, Hermes and the infant Dionysos,(c. 340-270)
Polykleitos, Doryphoras (Spear Bearer) 440 BCE)
Compare and contrast
Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Knidos. Roman marble copy of an original c 350-340 BCE
Grave Stele of a young hunter found near the Ilissos River, Athens Greece, c. 340-330 BCEAttributed to Skopas
Hellenistic Sculpture
(323-30 BCE)
Lysippos, Apoxyomenos, Roman marble copy of bronze original c. 330 BCE
Lysippos, Weary Herakles, Roman marble copy, c. 320 BCE
Dying Gallic Trumpeter (Dying Gaul)Roman copy after the original bronze of 220 BCE
Face detail of theDying Gallic
Winged Nike (Winged Victory) From Samothrace, (c. 190 BCE)Hellenistic period
Aphrodite at Melos (also called Venus de Milo), (c. 150-125 BCE)Hellenistic StyleRevival style of the sensual female from Praxiteles during the Classical Period
Boxer, Late 2nd to early 1st CenturyHellenistic Period
Laocoön and His Two Sons,1st century CE Laocoön and his son. Roman copy of a Hellenistic statue adds a son on the left,
The Development Of
Ancient Greek Architecture and
Architectural SculptureArchaic Style c. 600-480 BCE
Plan of a typical Greek peripteral temple
Doric Order:See Handout and key terms
View of Apollo’s Temple at Corinth, (c. 500 BCE)Archaic architecture, Early Doric
Reconstruction of the façade of the Siphnian Treasury in the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi, Delphi Museum. (530-525 BCE)
Seated gods from the Ionic Frieze of the Siphnian Treasury, 530-525 BCEArchaic style, Ionic
Early and High Classical Style Architecture
c. 480-400 BCE
Ionic Order:See handout and key terms
What are the two ordersRepresented here?
The Parthenon-c. 447-438
Temple of Athena Nike
Two short films about the Parthenon
http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Arts/Parthenon.htm
http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/galleries/ancient_greece_and_rome/room_18_greece_parthenon_scu.aspx
Apollo with Lapith and Centaur, center of the west Pediment of the temple of Zeus at Olympia. 465-457 BCE
Acropolis: Akros meaning higher or upper, Polis meaning city
Designed by architects Iktinos and Kallikrates in 448 BCE. Phidias, supervised the sculptures. 448-432 BCE, Classical Style, Doric Order
The ParthenonAthens, Greece
Neda Leipen and Sylvia Hahn, reconstruction of Phidias’s Athena, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.From the naos of the Parthenon
East Pediment depicted the birth of Athena
http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/ARTH209/Parthenon_gallery.html
West Pediment: contest Between Athena and Poseidon
Lapith and Centaur, from the south metope XXVII of the Parthenon, 432 BCEClassical Period
Phidias, Equestrian Group from the north Ionic frieze of the Parthenon, c. 442-439 BCE, Classical style
Temple of Athena Nike from the east, Acropolis, Athens
Temple of Athena Nike from the east, Acropolis, Athens,
427-242 BCEClassical StyleIonic Order
Nike Adjusting Her Sandal, from the balustrade of the temple of Athena Nike, Acropolis 410-409 BCE, Classical period
The caryatid porch of the Erechtheum, south side, Acropolis, Greece , 421-405 BCE, Classical Period, Doric Order
Late Classical PeriodHellenic Period
c. 400-323
Corinthian Order:See Handout and Key terms
Temple of Apollo at Delphi 346-320 BCE
Polykleitos the Younger, Cornthian capital, from the tholos, Epidauros, Greece, c. 350
Choragic Monument of, Lysikrates, Athens, Greece, 334 BCE
Polykleitos the Younger, Theatre at Epidauros, (c. 350 BCE)Late Classical Style
Hellenistic Architecture (323-31 BCE)
Great Altar of Zeus, west front reconstructed and restored, from Pergamon, c. 180 BCE, Hellenistic
Athena Battling with Alkyoneus, from the great frieze of the Pergamon altar, East Section, c. 180 BCE, Hellenistic period
Stoa of Attalos II c. 159-138 BCE
Finally, the end of
Ancient Greek Art after 95 slides!