Aegean to Golden Age Culture The Foundations of Classical Style
Minoan Art Fresco Painting on a moist, plaster surface
Minoan Art Priestess with Snakes 1500 BCE
Mycenaean Architecture Lion Gate Citadel at Mycenae 1250 BCE
Aegean Sculpture Sounion Kouros Marble 590 BCE Peplos Kore Marble 525 BCE
Music Instruments Aulos Lyre Kitharode Terms Mousikê (music) Melos (melody) Harmonia (harmony)
Pythagoras Monochord 2:1 Octave 3:2 Fifth 4:3 Fourth The mathematical foundation for all music Western 12 tone Japanese 5 tone Arabic 17 tone
Stasimon Chorus from Orestes Euripides c. 408 BCE Who was Orestes? Stasimon An ode sung by the chorus Context The women of Argos are pleading for Orestes’ life. Emotions Voices “You wild goddesses who dart across the skies seeking vengeance for murder, we beg you to free Agamemnon’s son from his raging fury… We grieve for this boy. Happiness is brief among mortals. Sorrow and anguish sweep down on it like a swift gust of wind on a sail boat, and it sinks under the tossing seas.”
Stasimon Chorus from Orestes Euripides c. 408 BCE
Classical Style Order If music was mathematical, then why not art? Proportion Calculated body measurements Symmetry Humanism Focus on human beings Realism Faithful to nature Idealism Perfection that surpasses nature
Classic Sculpture Kritios Boy Marble 480 BCE Sounion Kouros Marble 590 BCE
Columns in Chicago
Doric Columns
Ionic Columns
Corinthian Columns