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The Archaic Period
620 to 490/80 BCE
• The Archaic Period was the time when Aesop
was writing his fables as a Greek slave.
• Artists competed for commissions by wealthy
individuals and city council members.
• Commissions included temples, shrines,
government buildings, monumental sculpture,
and ceramic wares.
Temple Architecture
• 2 Greek standard elevation designs
(columns) emerged:
– 1.
– 2.
Doric
Ionic
• Temple of Hera I,
Paestum, Italy 550
BCE
• 50 miles south of
modern day Naples
• Stone post and lintel
structure
What type of columns?
Architectural Sculpture
• High relief: 3-D image or design whose flat
background surface is carved away to a high depth.
• Caryatids: columns carved in the form of draped
women.
• Gorgon Medusa
• West pediment of
the Temple of
Artemis, Korkya,
580 BCE,
Limestone.
• Example of ______?
• Treasury of the
Siphnians
• Built in the
Sanctuary of Apollo
at Delphi
• 530-525 BCE
• The continuous frieze and pediment show high
relief
• This slide depicts, “Gods and the Giants,” which
is one of the earliest movements towards a more
natural representation of space.
• This is a narrative scene with a groundline and
the overlapping characters create depth.
• Dying Warrior, Doric Temple of Aphaia
at Aegina
• 480 BCE, Marble
• Cleverly designed to hit in the corner of
the pediment.
Freestanding Sculpture
• Lifesize of larger, these sculptures
would be standing or in stride with one
foot in front of the other.
• Brightly painted (even though we can’t
see it anymore)
• Kore: female statue
• Kouros: male statue
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Standing Youth (Kouros)
580 BCE, Marble
Attica, Greece
Echoes the style of Egypt
with regard to rigid arms,
clenched fists, and the
forward stride.
• Artist is interested in
capturing anatomy.
• Hair is patterned with
consistent knots.
• Archaic smile: close-lipped
smile specific to the Greek
Archaic period
• Kroisos Kouros
• Cemetery at Anavysos,
Athens
• 530 BCE, Marble
• Powerful, round body
• A continual interest in
artist’s rendering the
human body with more
detail
• Stride, arms, fists, hair,
and archaic smile
Berlin Kore
Cemetery at Keratea, Athens
570 - 560 BCE, Marble
<6 ft. tall
Texture of drapery echoes the
indentions of flutes.
Holding a pomegranate, the
attribute for Persephone, who
was abducted by Hades.
• Peplos Kore
• Acropolis, Athens
• 530 BCE, Marble
• peplos: garment,
draped rectangular
cloth
• Motionless, vertical,
stylized hair
• More of a feminine
figure compared to
Berlin Kore.
• Kore (from Chios?)
• 520 BCE, Marble
• Rich drapery, softer
features, and lifelike anatomy
• Chiton: like a
peplos, but fuller of
ornate detail
• Calf Bearer
• Acropolis,
Athens 560 BCE
• Archaic smile,
tufted hair, wideopen eyes
• Cow is depicted
with perceptive
detail in relation
to the twisting
position.
Archaic Vase Painting
During the Archaic period, Athens =
center for manufacture and trade for
pottery.
Athens adopted the Corinthian blackfigure style.
• Francois Vase, 570
• Black-figure on
volute-krater
• One of the earliest
examples of where
the potter and
painter signed work.
• Dionysos and Maenads,
Amphora
• Amphora: all purpose
storage jar
• Amasis painter,
distinctive patterning
and strong shapes,
figures disregard real
space (opposite of the
high relief on frieze at
Treasury of Siphnians)
• Suicide of Ajax, 540
BCE black-figure on
amphora, by painter
Exekias
• Considered the finest of
Athenian vase painters,
took subjects from
Greek history
Ajax
• Ajax was a fearless warrior, only behind
Achilles.
• Tree on the left and shield on the right
encapsulates the contemplative scene.
• Balance.
• Priam Painter, Women
at a Fountain House
• Hydria: water jug
• 520-510 BCE Black
figure on hydria
• Priam depicted
everyday life, doric
columns, contrast btw
porcelain skin vs. black
peplos
Introduction of red-figure decoration was
Introduced in the last 3rd of the 6th century.
If you can read this, stand up
• Death of Sarpedon, red-figure on calyx krater, painted by
Euphronios. Balance
• Balance between vertical and horizontal lines.
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