CLASSICAL ART & ARCHITECTURE
CYCLADIC CULTURE 3000 – 2000 BC CYCLADES: AN ISLAND GROUP NORTH OF CRETE SCULPTURE CHARACTERIZED BY RECTANGULAR ANGULARITY AND AN ABSTRACT SIMPLICITY CARVED IN PRISTINE WHITE MARBLE
ZOOMORPHIC CLAY VESSAL
MINOAN CIVILIZATION 2600 – 1100 BC THE ISLAND OF CRETE NAMED AFTER KING MINOS TRADE EMPIRE PLAYFUL THEMES
BULL LEAPER SNAKE GODDESS
MYCENAEAN CULTURE 1600 BC – 1110 BC GREEK MAINLAND WAR-LIKE SPOKE A GREEK LANGUAGE & WORSHIPPED GREEK GODS
Lion’s Gate
Agamemnon's Death Mask
ARCHAIC PERIOD 750 BC – 500 BC DORIAN INVASION “DARK AGES”
KOUROS
PEPLOS
CALF BEARER
CLASSICAL 500BC – 323BC MEDIUMS – STONE & BRONZE
KRITIOS BOY 480 BC
DISKOBOLOS 450 BC
AMAZONS
DORIC COLUMNS
IONIC COLUMNS
CORINTHIAN COLUMN
ACROPOLIS
PARTHENON
TEMPLE OF ATHENA NIKE
ERECTHEION
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
WINGED VICTORY AKA NIKE OF SAMOTHRACE FOUND IN 1863 FOR GREEK NAVAL VICTORY THE WIND BECOMES A TANGIBLE PRESENCE AS IT SHAPES THE FOLDS OF THE DRESS
DYING GAUL NOTABLE FOR THE REALISTIC & SYMPATHETIC PORTRAYAL OF A DYING GALLIC TRIBESMEN NOTE THE HAIR AND NECKLACE
LAOCOON DRAMATIC VERSION OF FATE OF TROJAN PRIEST, PUNISHED BY SEA SERPENTS FOR TRYING TO WARN OF TROJAN HORSE SCHEME INFLUENCED MICHELANGELO