Download Ch5 The Art of Ancient Greece Revised

Gods, Heroes,
and Athletes: The
Art of Ancient Greece
The Geometric
Period
(@ 900-700 BCE)
Geometric Krater
from the Dipylon
cemetery
Athens, Greece
740 BC
@ 3’ 4 1/2” high
The Oriental
Period
(@ 700-600 BCE)
Mantiklos Apollo
(youth dedicated by Mantiklos to
Apollo)
Thebes, Greece
700-680 BC
Bronze
@ 8” high
Corinthian
Black Figure Amphora
with Animal Friezes
Rhodes, Greece
625-600 BC
@ 1’ 2” high
Plan of Temple A
Prinias, Greece (Crete)
625 BC
Lintel of Temple A
Prinias, Greece (Crete)
625 BC
Limestone, @ 2’ 9” high
Sculpture
The Archaic
Period
(@ 600-480 BCE)
Lady of Auxerre
(statue of a goddess or kore)
650-625 BC
Limestone
@ 2’ 1 1/2” high
Kouros
600 BC
Marble
@ 6’ 1/2” high
Calf Bearer
dedicated by
Rhonbos on the Acropolis,
Athens, Greece
ca. 560 BCE
Marble
Restored Height @ 5’ 5”
Kroisos
from Anavysos, Greece
530 BC
Marble
@ 6’ 4” high
Peplos Kore
from the Acropolis, Athens,
Greece
530 BC
Marble @ 4’ high
Kore
from the Acropolis, Athens, Greece
520-510 BC
Marble, @ 1’ 9”high
The Early and
High Classical
Periods
(@ 480-400 BCE)
Kritios Boy
from the Acropolis, Athens, Greece
480 BC
Marble, @ 2’ 10”high
Warrior
from the sea off Riace,
Italy
460-450 BC
Bronze
@ 6’ 6” high
Zeus (or Poseidon)
from the sea off Cape
Artemision, Greece
460-450 BC
Bronze
6’ 10” high
Myron
“Diskobolos”
(Discus Thrower)
Roman marble copy
after bronze original
450 BC
5’ 1” high
Polykleitos
“Doryphoros”
(Spear Bearer)
Roman marble copy from
Pompeii, Italy, after a bronze
original from
450-440 BC
6’ 11” high
Kresilas
Pericles
marble herm copy after
a bronze original
429 BC
@ 6’ high
The Late
Classical
Period
(@ 400-323 BCE)
Praxiteles
“Aphrodite of Knidos”
Roman marble copy after
original
350-340 BC
@ 6’ 8” high
Praxiteles
“Hermes and the infant
Dionysos”
from the Temple of Hera,
Olympia, Greece
marble copy after an original
of 340 BC
@ 7’ 1” high
Lysippos
“Apoxyomenos”
(Scraper)
Roman Marble Copy after
Bronze Original
330 BC
@ 6’ 9” high
Polykleitos “Doryphoros”
Lysippos “Apoxyomenos”
Lysippos “Weary Herakles” (Farnese Herakles)
Roman marble copy signed by Glykon of Athens, after bronze original
320 BC @ 10’ 5” high
Head of Alexander
from
Pella, Greece
ca. 200-150 BCE
@ 1’ high
The
Hellenistic
Period
(323-31 BCE)
Epigonos?
Gallic chieftain killing
himself and his wife
Roman marble copy after a
bronze original from
Pergamon, Turkey
230-220 BC
@ 6’ 11” high
Epigonos? “Dying Gaul”
Roman marble copy after a bronze original from
Pergamon, Turkey 230-220 BC
@ 3’ 1/2” high
Nike of Samothrace
(Nike alighting on a warship)
Samothrace, Greece 190 BC
Marble @ 8’ 1” high
Alexandros of Antioch on the
Meander
Aphrodite (Venus de Milo)
from Melos, Greece
150-125 BC
Marble @ 6’ 7” high
Old Market Woman
150-100 BC
Marble
@ 4’ 1/2” high
Athanadoros,
Hagesandros, and
Poltdoros of
Rhodes
“Laocoon and His
Sons
from Rome, Italy
early first century
AD
@ 7’ 10 1/2 “ high
Architecture
and
Architectural
Sculpture
The Archaic
Period
(@ 600-480 BCE)
Plan for the Temple of Hera I
Paestum, Italy
550 BC
Plan for the Temple of Hera I, Paestum, Italy, 550 BC
Plan for the Temple of Hera I, Paestum, Italy, 550 BC
West pediment from the Temple of Artemis
Corfu, Greece
600-580 BC
Limestone
greatest height @ 9’ 4” high
Reconstruction drawing of the Siphnian Treasury
Delphi, Greece, 530 BC
Gigantomachy
(detail of North frieze of the Siphnian Treasury)
Delphi, Greece
550 BC
Marble, @ 2’ 1” high
The Early and
High Classical
Periods
(@ 480-400 BCE)
Temple of Aphaia
Aegina, Greece
500-490 BC
Temple of Aphaia
Aegina, Greece
500-590 BC
Temple of
Hera I
Paestum,
Italy
550 BC
Plan and restored cutaway view of the Temple of
Aphaia
Aegina, Greece
500-490 BC
West pediment of the Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, Greece
500-490 BC, Marble, @ 5’ 8” high at center
Dying Warrior from the West pediment
Dying Warrior
from the East pediment of the Temple of Alphaia,
Aegina, Greece
490-480 BC
Marble, @ 6’ 1” long
The
Acropolis,
Athens
Aerial view of the Acropolis, Athens, Greece
Model of the Acropolis
Parthenon
Erechtheion
Propylaia
Temple of Athena
Nike
Iktinos and Kallikrates, “The Parthenon”
Acropolis, Athens, Greece
447-432 BC
Plan of the Parthenon
(with diagram of sculptural program)
Acropolis, Athens, Greece
447-432 BC
Marble Metope from the
Parthenon
A Fight Between a Human
Lapith and a Centaur
The Acropolis, Athens,
Greece, @ 440 BC
Phidias
“Athena Parthenos”
(model)
In the cella of the
Parthenon,
Acropolis, Athens,
Greece
@ 38” high
Seated Gods and Goddesses
The Panathenaic Festival Procession frieze
Interior of the Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens
447-438 BC
Marble @ 3’ 6” high
Athenian Elders and Maidens
The Panathenaic Festival Procession frieze
Interior of the Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens
447-438 BC
Marble @ 3’ 6” high
Mnesikles
“Propylaia”
Acropolis, Athens, Greece
437-432 BC
Erechtheion (view from the Southeast)
Acropolis, Athens, Greece
421-405 BC
Erechtheion (view from the Southeast
Acropolis, Athens, Greece
421-405 BC
Caryatid
from the South Porch of the
Erechtheion, Acropolis,
Athens, Greece
421-405 BC
Marble, 7’ 7” high
Kallikrates
“Temple of Athena Nike”
View from the Northeast
Acropolis, Athens, Greece
427-424 BC
The Late
Classical
Period
(@ 400-323 BCE)
Theater dedicated to Dionysos near the entrance to the
Acropolis
Polykleitos the Younger, Theater, Epidauros, Greece,
350 BC
Polykleitos the
Younger
Corinthian Capital,
from the tholos
Epidauros, Greece
350 BC
Choragic Monument of
Lysikrates
Athens, Greece
334 BC
The
Hellenistic
Period
(323-31 BCE)
Paionios of Ephesos and Daphnis of Miletos
Temple of Apollo, Didyma, Turkey, Began 313 BC
Reconstructed West front of the Alter of Zeus
from Pergamon, Turkey
175 BC
Athena Battling Alkyoneos
Detail of the gigantomachy frieze, from the Alter of Zeus
Pergamon, Turkey 175 BC @ 7’ 6” high
Gigantomachy Frieze
detail
Altar of Zeus
Hellenistic
175 BC
Gigantomachy Frieze, detail, Siphnian Treasury, Archaic, 530 BC
Pottery
The Archaic
Period
(@ 600-480 BCE)
Black-Figure
Kleitias and
Ergotimos
“Francois Vase”
(Attic black-figure
krater)
from Chiusi, Italy
570 BC
@ 2’ 2” high
Kleitias and Ergotimos “Francois Vase” (detail)
(Attic black-figure krater) from Chiusi, Italy
570 BC
@ 2’ 2” high
Exekias
“Achilles and Ajax playing a dice game”
(detail from an Attic black-figure amphora)
from Vulci, Italy, 540-530 BC, whole vessel @ 2’ high
Bilingual
Andokides Painter
“Achilles and Ajax
playing a dice game”
(Attic bilingual amphora)
from Orvieto, Italy
525-520 BC
Black-figure side
@ 1’ 9” high
Andokides Painter
“Achilles and Ajax playing a
dice game”
(Attic bilingual amphora)
from Orvieto, Italy
525-520 BC
Red-figure side
@ 1’ 9” high
Red-Figure
Euphronios
“Herakles wrestling Antaios”
(detail of a Attic red-figure calyx krater), from Cerveteri, Italy,
510 BC, whole vessel @ 1’ 7”high
Euthymides
“Three
Revelers”
(Attic redfigure
amphora)
from Vulci,
Italy
510 BC
@ 2’ high
The Early and
High Classical
Periods
(@ 480-400 BCE)
Achilles Painter
“Warrior taking leave of his
wife”
Attic White - Ground
Lekythos
from Electria, Greece
440 BC
@ 1’ 5” high
Phiale Painter
“Hermes bringing
the infant Dionysos
to Papposilenos”
Attic White-Ground
Calyx Krater
Vulci, Italy
440-435 BC
@ 1’ 2” high
The Hellenistic
Period
(@ 323-31 BCE)
Gnosis, “Stag Hunt,” from Pella Greece, 300 BC
Pebble, mosaic, figural panel 10’ 2” high
Philoxenos of Eretria “Battle of Issus” 310 BC
Roman copy from the House of Faun, Pompeii, Italy
late second or early first century BC,
Tessera Mosaic, @ 8’ 10” x 16’ 9”