GREEK ART & ARCHITECTURE

MINOAN CIVILIZATION 2600 – 1100 BC LIVED ON THE ISLAND OF CRETE NAMED AFTER KING MINOS (REMEMBER-THE LABYRINTH & THE MINOTAUR) PEACEFUL, CITIES NOT FORTIFIED TRADE EMPIRE ART DEALT WITH PLAYFUL THEMES

BIRD GODDESS ALL OF THE RELIGIOUS STATUES FOUND HAVE BEEN FEMALE – WHICH MEANS THEY WORSHIPPED AN EARTH GODDESS

BULL LEAPER SNAKE GODDESS AN EXAMPLE OF THE PLAYFUL THEME ANOTHER FEMALE DEITY

TOREADOR FRESCO MORE PLAYFUL THEMES DID THIS GAME EVOLVE FROM THE STORIES OF THE MINOTAUR? FRESCO: PAINTING ON WET PLASTER

PALACE AT KNOSSOS The Domestic Quarter. 1.Grand Staircase. 2.Hall of Colonnades. 3.Corridor to the North-East. 4.Hall of the Double Axes. 5.Queen's Room. 6. Toilet. 7.Court of Distaffs. 8.Service staircase. ONE OF THE IMPORTANT CITIES ON CRETE. PROBABLY NOT A PALACE BUT A TEMPLE & ADMINISTRATIVE CENTER. THE HALLWAYS WERE LAID OUT IN A CONFUSING MANOR- - LIKE A LABYRINTH.

THRONE ROOM ANTECHAMBER

QUEEN’S MEGARON THIS FRESCO OF DOLPHINS IS WELL KNOWN

TOURISTS OUTSIDE KNOSSOS

MINOAN JEWELRY VERY INTRICATE; TYPE OF SOLDER NOT REPLICATED UNTIL 1900’S

MYCENAEAN CULTURE 1600 BC – 1110 BC GREEK MAINLAND WAR-LIKE SPOKE A GREEK LANGUAGE & WORSHIPPED GREEK GODS ART THEMES WERE ALSO WAR-LIKE

POTTERY NOTE THE DECORATIONS ARE OF SOLDIERS

SCULPTURE OF SOLDIER IN HELMET DETAIL OF A BOAR TUSK HELMET

INTRICATELY CARVED SWORD SHEATHS

DETAILS OF CARVINGS

MYCENAE ACROPOLIS ACROPOLIS: HIGH POINT OF CITY

VIEW OF ACROPOLIS

CYCLOPEAN WALLS ACCORDING TO LEGEND, AN ANCIENT RACE OF CYCLOPES BUILT THIS SECTION OF THE CITY

LIONS GATE

AERIAL VIEW OF MYCENAE

GOLD DEATH MASK RIGHT: MISSED ATTRIBUTED AS AGAMEMNON'S

AGAMEMNON'S TOMB ONLY RECENTLY DISCOVERED, A SHEEP FELL THROUGH THE TOP. NOTE THE BEE HIVE SHAPE.

ARTIST RECREATION OF FRONT DOOR VIEW OF DOOR TODAY

VIEW OF CEILING

ARCHAIC PERIOD 750 BC – 500 BC DORIAN INVASION “DARK AGES” FREE STANDING SCULPTURES WERE EITHER A MALE NUDE OR A CLOTHED FEMALE

KOUROS ALL MALE NUDES ARE REFERRED TO AS KOUROS ALL HAVE ONE FOOT IN FRONT HANDS BY SIDE INTRICATE HAIR DESIGN RIGID, SQUARED POSTURE

RED LINES SHOW SQUARE POSE KOUROS 600 BC

KORE IONIC CLOTHED FEMALE ALWAYS REFERRED TO AS KORE. CLOTHES AND HAIRSTYLE VARIED. ONE ARM ALWAYS BENT AT ELBOW.

PEPLOS KORE

CALF BEARER THIS PIECE SHOWS THAT THE STYLE IS PROGRESSING. MOST ARCHAIC SCULPTURES HAVE WHAT IS CALLED AN “ARCHAIC SMILE.”

POTTERY GEOMETRIC I WISH I COULD TELL YOU MORE-BUT POTTERY IS IMPORTANT. THIS ONE IS FROM GEOMETRIC STYLE. SOMETIMES VASES WERE USED TO MAKE LIQUID OFFERINGS TO THE GODS. HOLES WERE DRILLED IN THE BOTTOM SO LIQUID COULD SEEP INTO THE GROUND.

CLASSICAL 500BC – 323BC MEDIUMS – STONE & BRONZE ATHENS GOLDEN AGE – 495 – 429 BC. GOLDEN AGE ENDS WHEN ATHENS IS DEFEATED BY SPARTA. 323 BC MARKS THE END OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT’S RULE. SCULPTURE HAS COUNTERPOISE INSTEAD OF ARCHAIC RIGID POSE.

KRITIOS BOY 480 BC NOTE THE COUNTER POSE – WEIGHT IS NOT EQUALLY DISTRIBUTED, ONE HIP POPS OUT

COMPARE THE TWO

DISKOBOLOS 450 BC SCULPTURES ALSO BEGIN TO SHOW ACTION NOT MERELY REALISTIC, BUT IDEALISTIC

SPEARBEARER

AMAZONS INCLUDED WOMEN

POTTERY LESS GEOMETRIC, BLACK VASE, RED BACKGROUND, BLACK FIGURES

DORIC COLUMNS PLAINEST COLUMN LOWEST ORDER, FOUND ON SIMPLER HOMES, LESS FORMAL BUILDINGS REMEMBER DORIANS WERE UNCIVILIZED

IONIC COLUMNS 2 ND IN ORDER OF COLUMNS HAS CURLY-Q’S AT TOP

CORINTHIAN COLUMN HIGHEST ORDER CAPITAL HAS LEAF SHAPES

ACROPOLIS OF ATHENS n THE HIGH POINT OF THE CITY n CONTAINS PARTHENON, TEMPLE OF NIKE & ERECHTHEION

PARTHENON n BUILT BY PERICLES, BC n HONORED ATHENA n CURRENT APPEARANCE DUE TO 1687 EXPLOSION

FLOOR PLAN

ARTIST DRAWING OF INTERIOR THE STATUE IS OF ATHENA

ANOTHER ARTIST RECREATION

EAST PEDIMENT WEST PEDIMENT THE PARTHENON WAS DECORATED WITH FRIEZES- WHICH ARE 3-D CARVINGS ON WALLS. THESE WERE ON THE FRONT AND BACK OF THE BUILDINGS

THIS IS A PEDIMENT

TEMPLE OF ATHENA NIKE ALSO ON THE ACROPOLIS

ERECTHEION ALSO ON THE ACROPOLIS

ANOTHER VIEW

THEATER AT EPIDAUROS BUILT IN 330 BC 14,000 SEATS WAS A MEDICAL CENTER LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE

A PERSON CAN DROP A COIN ON THAT SPOT AND IT CAN BE HEARD BY A PERSON STANDING AT THE TOP.

HELLENISTIC SCULPTURE 323 BC – 30 BC AFTER THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT, UNTIL THE BEGINNING OF THE EMPIRE STAGE OF ROME INNER EMOTIONS WERE MORE IMPORTANT THAN BEAUTY CONCERNED MORE WITH REALITY THAN IDEALISTIC MAN

n AKA NIKE OF SAMOTHRACE n FOUND IN 1863 n FOR GREEK NAVAL VICTORY n THE WIND BECOMES A TANGIBLE PRESENCE AS IT SHAPES THE FOLDS OF THE DRESS WINGED VICTORY

DYING GAUL NOTABLE FOR THE REALISTIC & SYMPATHETIC PORTRAYAL OF A DYING GALLIC TRIBESMEN NOTE THE HAIR AND NECKLACE

ALTAR OF ZEUS ORIGINALLY LOCATED IN TURKEY THIS IS A RECONSTRUCTION IN A BERLIN MUSEUM

LAOCOON DRAMATIC VERSION OF FATE OF TROJAN PRIEST, PUNISHED BY SEA SERPENTS FOR TRYING TO WARN OF TROJAN HORSE SCHEME INFLUENCED MICHELANGELO