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Geometric and Orientalizing
Hero and Centaur
Sculpture of the Geometric period is
small scale, and the figures have simple
stylized shape. This solid-cast bronze
statuette depicts a hero battling a
centaur- an early example of
mythological narrative.
Corinthians invented the black figure
technique of vase panting in which artists
painted black silhouettes and then incised
linear details within the forms. This early
example features Orientalizing animals.
Vocab:
Meander/ Key- pattern around the rim of the krater
Dipylon Krater
Geometric Krater. Figure
painting reappeared in
Greece in the Geometric
period.
Features a mourning
scene and procession in
honor of the deceased.
Centaur-half man, half horse
Amphora- two handled storage jar
Siren-half bird, half woman
Kore- statuette of a goddess or maiden
Encaustic- mixed pigment with hot wax that is applied to
the statue to produce a durable coloration
Lady of Auxerre
This kore typifies the so-called Daedalic
style of the seventh century BCE with its
triangular face and hair and lingering
Geometric fondness for abstract pattern.
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Archaic
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600 BCE the first life sized stone statues appeared in Greece.
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The Kouroi echoed the frontal poses of Egyptian statues
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During 6th century Archaic smiles were added to make the statues seem more life like
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Stone temples with peripteral colonnades and the creation of Doric and Ionic orders
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Andokides Painter came up with red figure vase painting around 530 BCE
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Age old composite view for the human figure was rejected by Euphronios and Euthymides
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They experimented with foreshortening
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Achilles and Ajax
Playing A Board
Game
Temple
of
Hera I
Peplos
Kore
Dying Warrior
Kouros
Lady
of
Auxerre
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Classical
Name
Date
Location
Style
Material
Kritios Boy
480 BC
Athens, Greece
Early/High
classical
Marble
Diskobolos
450BC
Early/High
classical
Marble copy of
bronze original.
Doryphoros
450-440 BC
Pompeii, Italy
Early/High
classical
Marble copy of
bronze original.
Parthenon
447-432 BC
Athens, Greece
Early/High
classical
Athena
Parthenos
438 BC
Athens Greece
Early/High
classical
Erechtheon
421-405 BC
Acropolis
Athens, Greece
Early/High
classical
Nike Adjusting
Sandal
410 BC
Acropolis,
Athens, Greece
Early/High
classical
Marble
Grave Stele of
Hegroso
400 BC
Athens, Grece
Early/High
classical
Marble
Gold and Ivory
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Diskobolos
Grave Stele of
Hegroso
Doryphoros
Kritios Boy
Athena Parthenos
Erechtheon
Parthenon
Nike Adjusting
Sandal
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Late Classical
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Time of political upheaval
 thought shifts to focus
more on individuals and on
real world appearances
rather than the canon
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Humanized deities,
athletes, and heroes.
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The period closed with
Alexander the Great, who
ushered in the Hellenistic
Age
Corinthian column: created as way
to solve problem with end columns
and symmetry. More ornate than
Doric and Ionic. Becomes
increasingly popular and later
influences Roman columns.
Artists to Know:
Praxiteles: more sensuous subjects;
more female nudity, less symmetry;
smoother modeling (Hermes and the
Infant Dionysos, Aphrodite of Knidos)
Lysippos: new canon with slenderer
proportions; created pieces to be
viewed from all angles (Apoxyomenos,
Weary Herakles)
Polykleitos the Yonger: constructed the
finest Greek theater at Epidauros
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Late Classical
Battle of Issus: One of greatest paintings
of antiquity. Captures psychological
intensity and reflects the time period.
Aphrodite of Knidos: Captures the sensuousness of
Late Classical Greece. First nude god. Marble is
transformed into soft and radiant flesh.
Hermes and the Infant
Dionysus: Humanized god.
Characteristic s-curve.
Apoxyomenos: New slenderer canon.
Multiple angle view. Nervous energy.
Epidauros Theater: Finest Greek theater. Accommodated
12,000. Renown for the harmony of its proportions. Open air
acoustics and unobstructed views of orchestra. Situated in
hillside.
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Hellenistic
The old market woman was consistent
with the realism of much Hellenistic art.
Unique because many Greek sculptures
were of high status people or gods.
Rarely are common people depicted in
sculptures.
Laocoon and his sons parallels the Hellenistic
period because as you can see the
Hellenistic period was very dramatic.
Sculptures have a lot of detail and they show
a lot emotion compared to prior Greek styles
such as Archaic in which not much is
idealized. This particular sculptures depicts
a scene recalled from the Aeneid in which
Sea serpents attack Laocoon because
Laocoon tried to warn his compatriots about
the trojan horse.
•The Hellenistic age extends from the death of Alexander until the death of Cleopatra,
when Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire. The great cultural centers of the
era were no longer the city-states of Archaic and Classical Greece but royal capitals such
as Alexandria in Egypt and Pergamon in Asia Minor.
•In art, both architects and sculptors broke most of the rules of Classical design. At
Didyma, for example, a temple to Apollo was erected that had no roof and contained a
small temple within it.
•Hellenistic sculptors explored new subjects—Gauls with strange mustaches and
necklaces, impoverished old women—and treated traditional subjects in new ways–
athletes with battered bodies and faces, openly erotic goddesses, Artists delighted in
depicting violent movement and unbridled emotion.
•Examples include: Seated boxer, Sleeping satyr, Venus de Milo (Aphrodite), Nike of
Samothrace (Nike alighting on a warship), and Dying Gaul.