Art of Ancient Greece What you must memorize.
Terms and Stuff city-state -- a polis an autonomous region having a city as its political, cultural, religious, and economic center for example: Athens, Sparta, Corinth or Thebes— remember Antigone a stoa –colonnaded pavilion, open on three sides the importance of the procession stadium sanctuaries Mount Olympos Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi (the oracle of Delphi)
Temples
a Mycenaen megaron—the source of the Greek Temple 1.a columned entrance porch 2.an anteroom with a central doorway 3.a living space with a central hearth and four columns supporting the roof around the opening
The Ionic order has a frieze and a base as well as a different capital. The proportions of the Ionic order are more elongated.
Temple of Hera I, Paestum, Italy c. 550 BCE
Doric order (an early version) columns with fluted shafts but without bases rest directly on the stylobate
Phidias, Kallikrates and Iktinos Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens BCE
Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens BCE Athena Promachus (Athena the Defender)
Centaur and Lapith Parthenon, metope relief c. 440’s BCE This sculpture from the Parthenon shows a Centaur rearing triumphantly over a dying human Lapith. This focus on human suffering epitomizes the intense humanism of Greek art. The sculpture also represents Greece's struggle to resist being absorbed into the Persian Empire. The Greeks had a strong notion of their own identity and regarded the Persians as barbarians like the Centaurs. The Parthenon was completed in 432 BCE on the site of an earlier unfinished temple destroyed by the Persians. objects/9DWj8vP7RSmAqiuIbW4X8w objects/9DWj8vP7RSmAqiuIbW4X8w
Tholos Sanctuary of Athena Pronaia, Delphi c. 400 BCE
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Sculpture and Ancient Greece
Dying Warrior pediment sculpture Temple of Aphaia, Aegina c. 480 BCE Archaic Period
Kouros c. 525 BCE Archaic Period
Kritian Boy 480 BCE
Polykleitos Spear Bearer (Doryphoros) c BCE a marble copy
Praxiteles Hermes and the Infant Dionysos
Alexander the Great left: head from a Hellenistic copy, possibly after a 4 th century original by Lysippos
Coin with head of Alexander This coin was issued by Lysimachus, the former general of Alexander the Great. After Alexander's death, Lysimachus ruled part of Alexander's empire in Bulgaria, northern Greece and Turkey known as 'Thrace'. Lysimachus used Alexander's portrait on his coins to emphasize his position as Alexander's successor. Alexander was worshipped as a god after his death. Here he sports the ram's horns of the god, Zeus Ammon, whom Egyptian priests claimed was Alexander's father. On the reverse of the coin is the goddess Athena. Alexander was born in the kingdom of Macedon in 356 BCE. By the age of 25 he had conquered Greece, Egypt and Persia, creating an empire spanning 2 million square miles. Following his death in 323 BCE, Alexander's generals began to squabble over his legacy. Since they could not claim a blood- tie, these generals tried to legitimize their rule through other connections with Alexander. Eventually they divided the empire into three main kingdoms in Macedon, Egypt and Persia and went on to form powerful dynasties. cy8iCRxSgI9I-rbVadg cy8iCRxSgI9I-rbVadg
Dying Gallic Trumpeter Roman Copy after the original bronze of c. 220 BCE
Laocoon and His Sons Hellenistic
Aphrodite of Melos or Venus de Milo c. 150 BCE
Nike (Victory) of Samothrace from the sanctuary of the Great Gods, Samothrace c. 190 BCE
Greek Vase Painting
Funerary vase c. 750 BCE Geometric Period
Panathenaic amphora ca. 530 BCE Archaic Terracotta Panathenaic amphora ca BCE Archaic Terracotta
The Suicide of Ajax c. 540 BCE
Death of Sarpedon c. 515 BCE
Artemis Slaying Actaeon c. 470 BCE