The Art of Ancient Greece c BCE

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Geometric c. 750 BCE

Geometric amphora, two handled storage jar, 8 th Century BCE; From Dipylon

Orientalizing c. 650 BCE

Polyphemos Painter, amphora BCE Orientalizing Style

Archaic Style (from the Greek word archaios, meaning “old”) (c. 550 BCE)

Priam Painter, Priam Painter, Women at a Fountain House, c BCE.

Panathenaic Amphora with Runners, c. 520 BCE, Attributed to Euphiletos painter.

Exekias, amphora Achilles and Ajax playing a Board Game BCE Archaic Style

Ajax on the right says, Tria “Three.” And Achilles counters with Tesara “four.” They are believed to be playing dice. “four.” They are believed to be playing dice.

Exekias, amphora Achilles and Penthesilea 525 BCE Archaic Period

Euphronios (painter) and Euxsitheos (potter), Death of Sarpedon during the Trojan War, c. 515 BCE, From an Italian grave.

Detail of the Death of Sarpedon during the Trojan War, c.500 BCE

Severe or Early Classical Style (c.480 BCE)

Berlin Painter, bell krater, showing the Abduction of Europa by Zeus 490 BCE.

New Style, what differences to you see?

Penthesilea Painter, cup interior showing Achilles and Penthesilea 455 BCE Late Archaic Classical

Death of the Children of Niobe, Niobid Painter, c BCE

Classical to Late Classical Style (c BCE)

Reed Painter, Warrior by a Grave ( c.410 BCE) Classical period

Hellenistic Period (c.250 BCE)

Battle of Issus, from the House of the Faun, Pompeii, Also known as “Alexander Mosaic,” First Century CE Roman copy from the Hellenistic period in Greece

Alexander the Great

Persian King Darius, from…

Sculpture Orientalizing Style: Seventh Century BCE

Terrace of the Lions, Delos, Italy, 7 th Century BCE

Sculpture, Archaic Style c BCE Note: Refer to your sculpture hand out

New York Kouros from Attica (c. 600 BCE) Archaic Sculpture period

Differences?Similarities?

Kroisos, from Anavysos, Greece, c. 530 New York Kouros from Attica (c. 600 BCE)

Calf Bearer (Moschophoros), dedicated by Rhonbos on the Acropolis, Athens, c 560 BCE

Dying Warrior from the west pediment of the Temple of Aphaia, Aegina Greece, c 490 BCE

Peplos Kore 530 BCE) Archaic period

Early Classical Style Sculpture c BCE Classical Style c BCE

The Kritios Boy, from the Acropolis 480 BCE Early Classical Style

Poseidon/Zeus, found in the sea off Cape Artemision 450 BCE) Early Classical Period

Myron, Diskobolos, (Disk Thrower), BCE Early Classical

Warrior from Riaci (c. 450 BCE) Early Classical Style

Polykleitos, Doryphoras (Spear Bearer) Classical style Roman copy from Pompeii, original c BCE

Attributed to Polykleitos, Wounded Amazon, c. 430 BCE) Classical Style Why is this Attributed to Polykleitos? c. 430 BCE) Classical Style

Stele of Hegeso, ( c BCE) Classical Style

Late Classical Period Hellenic Period 3 rd through the 1 st Century

Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Knidos. Roman marble copy of an original c BCE

Praxiteles, Hermes and the infant Dionysos, from the temple of Hera, Olympia, Greece, c. 340, or copy of 0riginal work c by grandson.

Praxiteles, Hermes and the infant Dionysos, (c ) Polykleitos, Doryphoras (Spear Bearer) 440 BCE) Compare and contrast

Grave Stele of a young hunter found near the Ilissos River, Athens Greece, c BCE Attributed to Skopas

Lysippos, Apoxyomenos, Roman marble copy of bronze original c. 330 BCE Lysippos, Weary Herakles, Roman marble copy, c. 320 BCE

Hellenistic Sculpture ( BCE)

Winged Nike (Winged Victory) From Samothrace, (c. 190 BCE) Hellenistic period

Aphrodite at Melos (also called Venus de Milo), (c BCE) Hellenistic Style Revival style of the sensual female from Praxiteles during the Classical Period

Boxer, Late 2 nd to early 1 st Century Hellenistic Period

Laocoön and His Two Sons, 1 st century CE Laocoön and his son. Roman copy of a Hellenistic statue adds a son on the left,

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The Development Of Ancient Greek Architecture and Architectural Sculpture Archaic Style c BCE

View of Apollo’s Temple at Corinth, (c. 500 BCE) Archaic architecture, Early Doric

What are the two orders Represented here? The Parthenon- Temple of Athena Nike

Seated gods from the Ionic Frieze of the Siphnian Treasury, BCE Archaic style, Ionic

Apollo with Lapith and Centaur, center of the west Pediment of the temple of Zeus at Olympia BCE

Handout

The Parthenon, Athens Designed by architects Iktinos and Kallikrates in 448 BCE. Phidias, supervised the sculptures BCE, Classical Style, Doric Order

Lapith and Centaur, from the south metope XXVII of the Parthenon, 432 BCE Classical Period

Equestrian Group from the north Ionic frieze of the Parthenon, c BCE, Classical style

Temple of Athena Nike from the east, Acropolis, Athens Temple of Athena Nike from the east, Acropolis, Athens, BCE Classical Style Ionic Order

Nike Adjusting Her Sandal, from the balustrade of the temple of Athena Nike, Acropolis BCE, Classical period

The caryatid porch of the Erechtheum, south side, Acropolis, Greece, BCE, Classical Period, Doric Order

Theatre at Epidauros, (c. 350 BCE) Late Classical Style

Great Altar of Zeus, west front reconstructed and restored, from Pergamon, 180 BCE, Hellenistic

Athena Battling with Alkyoneus, from the great frieze of the Pergamon altar, East Section, c. 180 BCE, Hellenistic period