Ancient Greece c bce Classical bce Ideal Lekythos Mosaic, tesserae contrapposto Kritios Boy 480 bce Myron Riace lost wax bronze casting Polykleitos, Doryphorus, Amazon* Canon Temple of Zeus, Olympia, lapiths, centaurs c. 460 bce Acropolis Phidias, Pericles Propylaea (gateway) Parthenon, Ictinus, Kallikrates c. 447 bce Phidias Temple of Athena Nike 410 bce, Erecthium, caryatid Theatre at Epidaurus Praxiteles Lyssipus
The Acropolis, Athens bce Pericles, Phidias & Ictinus, Kallikrates & Mneskles
Leo von Klenze, The Acropolis, 1846
Propylaea By Mneskles
Propylaia-Mnesiklese
Kallikrates, Little Temple of Athena Nike 425 bce
Kallikrates, Little Temple of Athena Nike 425 bce
Propylaea Looking toward the picture gallery
Nike By Phidias
The Parthenon, Iktinos & Kallikrates, c bce
Diagram in exaggerated proportion of the horizontal curvature of the Parthenon. Richard G. Tansey and Fred S. Kleiner, Gardner's Art Through the Ages. 10th ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1996.
Architectural Sculpture – Phidias Metopes, Pediment & Frieze
Pedimental Sculpture by Phidias
East Pediment Birth of Athena
Elgin Marbles, British Museum, London
Dionysius
Goddesses
Phidian drapery
West Pediment Athena & Poseidon’s Gifts
(plaster cast)
Parthenon Nashville Tennessee
Mneskles, Erecthium, c. 430’s bce
West facade
North Porch
Porch of the Maidens (caryatids)
Tholos, Circular Temple or Shrine (Delphi)
Pebble Mosaics
Amphitheater at Epidaurus, 350 bce
Corinthian Order
Decorative Floor Mosaics Pebble mosaics
Name motifs? (fm Carthage mosaic below)
Alexander the Great confronts Darius III – Battle of Issos Roman copy Greek ptg from 300 BCE, Pompeii
Reconstructed floor mosaic….
Parents of Alexander the Great Mother, Olympias father Phillip
Alexander as Apollo, By Lysippus c. 330 bce
Gold jewelry 4 th century bce
Ganymede Earrings, Macedonia c. 300 bce
The End of Classical….on to Hellenistic!