1 Early Greek Art and Architecture
2 The Art of Greece The Periods The Cretan Period BC The Mycenaean Age BC Geometrical Period – The Middle Ages of Greece BC Protogeometric BC Geometric BC The Archaic Period – The Age of Colonization BC The Classical Period BC Early Classical – The Persian Wars BC Main Classical – The Age of Perikles BC Late Classical – Democracy’s Crisis BC The Hellenistic Periodfrom 330 BC
3 Protogeometric B.C. Amphora
4 Geometric B.C. Amphora
5 Geometric amphora from the Dipylon. The band in the height of the handles includes a metope with the main scene of the prothesis of the deceased (laying out of the dead on a couch). The vase was used as a funerary monument at the Dipylon of Kerameikos, in Athens, and it is the work of the "Dipylon painter". Dated to the middle of the 8th century B.C. Kerameikos
6 Funeral Amphora
7 Dipylon Krater (Geometric style), from the Dipylon Cemetary, Athens, 8th c. B.C.
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9 The Statue of Zeus at Olympia
10 Magna Graecia, Paestum Magna Graecia, Paestum "Basilica" (Temple of Hera I): [L. foreground]. ca B.C.; Temple of Poseidon (Temple of Hera II): [R. background], view from SE.. ca. 460 B.C.
11 Magna Graecia, Paestum Magna Graecia, Paestum "Basilica" (Temple of Hera I): view from NE.. ca B.C.
12 Magna Graecia, Paestum Magna Graecia, Paestum Temple of Poseidon (Temple of Hera II): view from SE.. ca. 460 B.C.
13 Greek, Late Archaic Greek, Late Archaic Temple of Aphaia Aegina: view from E. ca B.C.
14 Greek, Late Archaic Greek, Late Archaic Fallen Warrior: figure from R. angle of W. pediment, Temple of Aphaia, Aegina. ca B.C.
15 Greek, Late Archaic Greek, Late Archaic Fallen Warrior: detail, head of figure from R. angle of W. pediment, Temple of Aphaia, Aegina. ca B.C.
16 Greek, Late Archaic Greek, Late Archaic Herakles as Archer: figure from R. angle of E. pediment, Temple of Aphaia, Aegina. ca B.C
17 Greek, Late Archaic Greek, Late Archaic Dying Warrior: figure from L. angle of E. pediment, Temple of Aphaia, Aegina. ca B.C.
18 Greek, Late Archaic Greek, Late Archaic Dying Warrior: detail of figure from L. angle of E. pediment, Temple of Aphaia, Aegina. ca B.C.
19 Temple of Apollo, Delphi: view from NW., (Alkmeionid E. front, B.C.; rebuilt B.C.).
20 Ionic and Doric Orders There are two main orders in Greek Temples, regardless of their scale. The Ionic order was developed in Ionian regions of the west coast of Asia Minor, the Doric order was favoured in Dorian area, though the basic element is same.
21 "Lady of Auxerre" Kore figure: detail, head and torso. ca B.C.
22 Kouros from Attica ca B.C.
23 "Peplos" Kore: ca. 530 B.C.
24 Kore from Chios: ca B.C.
25 Calf-bearer (Moschophoros): detail, head and shoulders. ca. 560 B.C.
26 Stele of Aristion by Aristokles c. 510 B.C. National Archaeological Museum, Athens
27 Hercules fighting two Amazons. Black-figure amphora. Period: Archaic period ca BC Courtesy of University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
28 Hephaestus opens the forehead of Zeus so Athena can be born. Shape: cylix Technique: black-figure Illustration: no perspective, no depth, all characters are placed on one baseline. Thunderbolt (Zeus), Shield (Athena), double axe (Hephaestus). Interpretation: The birth of Athena. Period: archaic
29 Centaurs Red-figure pottery Period: Late Archaic BC Courtesy of The National Museum of Denmark
30 Dionysus feast - dancing Satyrs (other side) Red- figure olpe ca BC Period: Late Archaic
31 A beautiful Black-figured White- ground Lekythos (oil flask). Peleus wrestling with Thetis - Made in Athens about BC - said to be from Thebes. Period: Late Archaic
32 Corinthian Ca 600 BC
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