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Greek Sculpture
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Greek Sculpture Two Enduring Understandings about Greek sculpture:
Greek sculpture demonstrates a discernable pattern of development that we can categorize A specific vocabulary can be used to describe Greek sculpture
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Objectives: Identify periods of Greek sculptural development.
Define vocabulary to describe sculpture. Apply period names and vocabulary terms to analysis of example sculptures.
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A Pattern of Development
Enduring Understandings about Greek sculpture: 1. Greek sculpture demonstrates a discernable pattern of development that we can categorize
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A Pattern of Development
Evolution of the Kouroi to the Kritios Boy and Comparison with the Hellenistic Apollo Belvedere. The Evolution of Realism: 1) c. 600 BC, 2) c BC, 3) c. 560 BC, 4) c BC , 5) c BC, 6) c. 485 BC, 7) c. 320 BC
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A Pattern of Development
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Greek Sculpture Development
Periods and their Styles Vocabulary to Describe Styles Example Pieces Example Types
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Periodization Historians use a technique we may term periodization to assign events, individuals and works of art and literature to a specific time period.
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Periods of Greek Sculpture
Archaic Classical Hellenistic 500’s and earlier B.C. 400’s B.C 300’s B.C. and later
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Archaic
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Two Archaic Sculpture Types: Kouros & Kore
Male: kouros (youth) Female: kore (maiden)
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Classical
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Hellenistic Period ________
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Vocabulary to Describe Greek Sculpture
stylized: elimination or exaggeration of details; subjects are portrayed using a pattern or standard of expression symbolic: use of symbols to convey meaning idealize: attempt to create perfect representations contraposotto: weight shift that renders a graceful attitude to the sculpture. naturalistic or realistic: portraiture, replicate life without relying on ideals, styles, or symbols; we may think of this as life-like
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How to look at Greek Sculpture
Ask Three Questions To Identify the Period of a Greek Sculpture
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How to look at Greek Sculpture
What is the FACIAL EXPRESSION? What is the POSE? How are the KNEES portrayed?
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How to look at Greek Sculpture
What is the FACIAL EXPRESSION? stylized: elimination or exaggeration of details; subjects are portrayed using a pattern or standard of expression note hair, eyes, nose, mouth and symmetry Archaic
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How to look at Greek Sculpture
What is the FACIAL EXPRESSION? Classical idealized: represents an attempt to create perfect representation of the human form
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How to look at Greek Sculpture
What is the FACIAL EXPRESSION? naturalistic or realistic: portraiture, replicates life without relying on ideals, styles, or symbols We may think of these pieces as life-like. Hellenistic
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Archaic What is the POSE? note head position and attention
note arm position and flexion note foot/leg position: stylized/ or symbolic of motion or being at rest * the meaning is debated note symmetry
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Classical What is the POSE? frozen action or static pose
contraposotto: weight shift that renders a graceful attitude to the sculpture.
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Hellenistic What is the POSE? awkward position frozen moment
emotion demonstrated physical age imperfection evident or exaggerated Period ________
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How are the KNEES portrayed?
Archaic How are the KNEES portrayed? block-like stiff, flexed muscles patella (knee cap) over emphasized
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How are the KNEES portrayed?
Classical a pose “in motion” may render differences between the two knees muscles are more gracefully joined, often somewhat over emphasized patella (knee cap) slightly over-emphasized
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How are the KNEES portrayed?
Hellenistic How are the KNEES portrayed? more graceful musculature knee cap evident but not over emphasized possibly obscured by clothing Period ________
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Hellenistic more graceful musculature
How are the KNEES portrayed? more graceful musculature knee cap evident but not over emphasized possibly obscured by clothing Period ________
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Greek Sculpture Quiz
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The Laocöon Group (Rome, Vatican Museums)
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Discobolos (c450 BC) Roman marble copy after bronze original (Rome, National Museum)
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Doryphoros Polykleitos
(The Canon, or Spear Carrier) marble, c450 BC (Vatican Museums)
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Diadoumenos, or the Fillet Binder
Polykleitos (Roman copy after bronze original c.450)
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Metropolitan Museum, New York
Wounded Amazon, copy after originals known to have been created by Phidias for competition Metropolitan Museum, New York
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Wounded Amazon, copy after originals known to have been created by Polykleitos for competition ?In Ephesus? Won by Polykleitos Vatican Museum
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Greek Sculpture Quiz: Peplos Kore
(c530 BC) polychromed (painted) marble
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Peplos Kore (c530 BC) polychromed (painted) marble
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Greek Sculpture Quiz: Moscophoros, the Calf-Bearer (Acropolis Museum)
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Greek Sculpture Quiz: "Rampin Horseman" Athens, Acropolis Museum
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Greek Sculpture Quiz: Kroisos from Anavyssos,
grave marker (c BC) (Athens, National Museum) polychromed (painted) marble
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Greek Sculpture Quiz: Kroisos from Anavyssos,
grave marker (c BC) (Athens, National Museum) polychromed (painted) marble
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Kritios (c480 BC) marble (Athens, Acropolis Museum)
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Aphrodite of Melos, second century BC (Paris, Louvre)
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Aphrodite of Melos, second century BC (Paris, Louvre)
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Greek Sculpture Quiz: Apollonios, Seated Boxer (Rome, Museo delle Terme) )
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Greek Sculpture Quiz: Satyr with Infant Dionysos
(Rome, Vatican Museums)
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Greek Sculpture: Quiz. Name_______________________
Greek Sculpture: Quiz Name_______________________ Date__________ Directions: Examine the figures as noted. Above and beside each figure create a flower as indicated by the diagram on the balckboard.
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