Antique SculptureAntique Sculpture

Greek and Roman investigations into Classic

beauty

ContextContextAncient Greece• 600 B.C.E. – Beginnings of Archaic Era in Greece• 480 B.C.E. – Early Classic Period• 323 B.C.E. - Beginning of Hellenism• 146 B.C.E. – Conquest by Romans

Ancient Rome• 509 B.C.E. – Beginning of Republic• 27 B.C.E. – Early Empire• 96 C.E. – High Empire• 192 C.E. – Late Empire• 410 C.E. – Fall of Rome

Early Renaissance• c. 1428 – 1432 C.E. David, Donatello

WordsWords

• B.C.E. and C.E. - “before common era” and “common era”, this is the academic approaches to the historic calendar

• kore (pl. korai) - Greek for “young woman”

• kouros (pl. kouroi) - Greek for “young man”

More WordsMore Words

• canon of proportions – rules to design ideal types

• contrapposto – classical hip-swing pose

• relief sculpture – three-dimensional art that projects from a panel

• stele – erect slab of stone, often used as a marker

Archaic Greece

Classicism

Polykleitos, Doryphoros (Spear Bearer) Praxiteles, Hermes With The Infant Dionysus

Myron, Discobolos

Captive Greece conquered victorious Rome

Which is the Roman and Greek?

Reasoning. . .

Classical? Veristic?

Age of Alexander

Worldliness, diversity, new experiences brought a new self-image

Real rather than Ideal