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Art and Architecture
By Kate Broskie, Corinne Franchette, Andrew
Wang, and Ryan Shah
Mediums used in Ancient
Greek sculpting
The two main types of mediums used for sculpting were bronze and stone.
Bronze
Bronze was used by Greek sculptors but it is
harder to come by today. The bronze
sculptures would be melted and reused for
more important purposes. The lost-wax
technique was used to produced these
sculptures, which allowed the sculptor to
first create the details first in wax and than
cover it in bronze.
Stone
The two most popular types of
stone used for sculpting were
marble and porous limestone.
Stone was chosen over bronze
because of its workability
rather than its quality of
beauty. Sculptors would use
iron tools to chip away the
larger pieces of stone and flat
chisels to carve detail work.
Ancient Greek vase painting
There were two main techniques,
red and black figured vases. The
main difference between these two
techniques is the paint in the black
figured vases would be applied with
a slip that turned black during firing.
Contrastingly in red figured vases,
the figures would be painted without
a slip, but the background would.
red-figured technique
black-figured
technique
Phidias of
Athens
• 493-430 BC (High classical
period)
• He is most known for his 40
foot tall statue of Athena in
the Parthenon.
• Phidias overlooked the
building of the Parthenon.
• He also built a huge statue
of Zeus in Olympia.
• Those two sculptures are
Chryselephantine (built of
gold and ivory).
Scopas of Paros
• 4th century BC to late
classical period
• An architect of the temple of
Athena
• He used all three orders of
columns (Doric, Corinthian,
and Ionic)
• Made one of the sculptured
columns on the temple of
Artemis at Ephesus after its
fire in 356
Polykleitos of
Argos
• 5th century BC to high
classical period
• He is known for his
Doryphorus statue (Spearbearer).
• The statue is illustrated in
his book canon.
• The book is a theoretical
work on ideal mathematical
proportions for human body
parts.
• It also talks about the
balance between tension and
movement, known as
symmetria.
Archaic period: 700BC480BC. (Brief History)
• The name of this period comes from what was
considered the old-fashioned style of
sculpture and other forms of art and craft that
were characteristic of that time. Most Archaic
Art consists of pottery and sculptures.
Hermes Bringing the Infant Dionysus to
Papposilenos (440 BC)
Zeus/Poseidon Artemision (480 BC)
Panel from Pitsa (540 B.C.)
Attic Black-figure Amphora by Exekias
(540 BC)
*No name given* (480 BC)
Sta#um of Olympia
Beginning of the sixth century BCE, this
stadium housed the Olympic Games in
honor of Zeus. Three separate buildings
were created, the last during the fifth
century.
Odeon of Herodes A"icus
An Ancient Greek theatre located in
Athens. Built by Herodes Atticus in
honor of his wife who passed away.
The theatre has since been renovated
for modern day usage.
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