1. Ancient Greek Art UNIT 5

2. The Greek World

3. Geometric krater from the Dipylon cemetery, Athens, Greece, 740 BCE Figure painting reappeared in Greece in the Geometric period, named for the abtract ornamentation on vessels like this krater, which features a mourning scene and procession in homor of the deceased.

4. Kouros, 600 BCE, 6’6” Tall. Metropolitan Museum of Art The Sculptors of the earliest life-sized statues of kouroi (young men) adopted the Egyptian pose for standing figures. The kouroi are shown nude and liberated from the original block of stone.

5. Kroisos from Anavaysos, Greece. 530 BCE 6’4” This later kouros stood over the grave of Kroisos, a young man who died in battle. The statue displays increased naturalism in its proportions and more rounded modeling of the face, torso, and limbs.

6. Peplos Kore, from the Acropolis, Athens, Greece, 530 BCE, 4’ Unlike men, women are always clothed in Archaic statuary. This Kore is a votive statue of a goddess wearing four garments. She once held her identifying attribute in her missing left hand.

8. Exekias, Achilles and Ajax playing a dice game. Vulci, Italy, 540-530 BCE The dramatic tension, adjustment of figures’ poses to the vase’s shape, and intricacy of the engraved patterns of the cloaks are hallmarks of Exekias, the greatest master of black-figure painting.

9. Euphronios, Herakles wrestling Antaios. Cerveteri, Italy, 510 BCE Euphronios rejected the age-old composite view for his depiction of Herakles and the giant Antaios and instead attempted to reproduce how the human body is seen from a particular viewpoint.

10. Dying Warrior from the East Pediment of the Temple pf Aphaia. 490 BCE 5’2.5” The eastern dying warrior already belongs to the classical era. His posture is more natural, and he exhbits a new self- consciousness. Concerned with his own pain, he does not face the viewer.

11. Zeus or Poseidon from the sea off cape Artemision, Greece, 460-450, Bronze, 6’10” In this Early Classical statue of Zeus hurling a thunderbolt, both arms are boldly extended and the right heel is raised off the groud, underscoring the lightness and stability of hollow-cast bronze statues.

12. Diskobolos (Discus Thrower) Roman marble copy of a bronze original. 450 BCE 5’1” This marble copy of Myron’s lost bronze statue captures how the sculptor froze the action of the discus throwing and arranged the nude athletes body and limbs so that they formed two intersecting arcs.

13. Polykleitos, Doryphoros (Spear Bearer) 450-440 BCE 6’11”

14. Three Goddesses, from the east pediment of the Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, Greece, 438- 432 These statues conform perfectly to the sloping right side of the east pediment. The thin and heavy folds of the garments alternately reveal and conceal the body and forms.

15. Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Knidos, 350-340 BCE, 6’8”

16. Corinthian Capital

17. Athena Battling Alkyoneos, from the Altar of Zeus, Pergamon, Turkey. 175 BCE The tumultuous battle scenes of the Pergamon altar have emotional power unparalleled in earlier Greek art. Violent movement, swirling draperies, and vivid depictions of suffering fill the frieze.

18. Nike alighting on a warship (Nike of Samotherace), from Samothrace, Greece, 190 BCE 8’1” Victory has just landed on a prow to crown a victor at sea. Her wings still beat, and the wind sweeps her drapery. The placement of the statue in a fountain of splashing water heightened the dramatic visual effect.

19. Aphrodite (Venus de Milo) from Melos Greece, 150-125 BCE, 6’7” Displaying the beauty and allure of many Hellenistic statues, this Aphrodite is more overtly sensual nature than the Knidian Aphrodite. The goddess has a slipping garment to tease the spectator.

20. Laocoon and his sons, from Rome, Italy, Early First Century CE. 7’10” Hellenistic style lived ono in Rome. Although stylistically akin to Pergamene sculpture, this statue of sea serpents attacking Laocoon and his two sons matches the account given only in the Aeneid.