1. Chapter 5
Classical Period

2. Flashcard Temple of Hera II Gardner’s 12th ed., p. 127

3. East Pediment, Temple of Zeus Flashcard
faculty.cva.edu/Stout/Egyptian/Egyptian.html
Gardner’s 12th ed

4. Seer, east pediment Temple of Zeus
Gardner’s 12th ed

5. Severe Style Athena, Herakles, and Atlas with Apples of the Hesperides
Herakles cleaning
Augean Stables:
Labor #5
classics.uc.edu/.../heracles_images/labors.jpg

6. Flashcard
Kritios Boy
Gardner’s 12th ed

7. CONTRAPPOSTO
CONTRAPPOSTO (or COUNTERPOISE), an Italian word, describes the stance of the human body in which one leg bears the weight while the other is relaxed. An asymmetry is created in the shoulder-hip axis. This is a natural, relaxed body pose.
Early sculptures of human figures, while anatomically correct, appeared stiff and unnatural

8. CONTRAPPOSTO
Here is an example of an Egyptian sculpture from the 4th Dynasty, c BCE., Menekaura and a Queen. Notice the unnatural stiffness of the figures.

9. ...the shoulders are level
CONTRAPPOSTO
If we look at the early Greek sculpture, the Anavysos Kouros (c 525 BCE), the unnatural stiffness is still present.
...the shoulders are level
...the hips are level
...both fists are level
...even the knees are level
...but the left leg is thrust forward. The left leg is forward and would have to be six inches longer!
Does the Anavysos Koursos statue demonstrate contrapposto?
The Answer is NO.

10. Contrapposto first appeared in classical Greek sculpture.
...the left shoulder is higher than the right shoulder
...an angle from the right shoulder to the left hip. The leg is relaxed and the hip bone is lower.
...the right leg bears all the body’s weight.
Also notice how the knees are not level and at an angle. The shoulders counterbalance the hips.
If the hips and shoulders were parallel, we could not balance and would fall over!

11. CONTRAPPOSTO
The classical Greeks progressed to where they were able to model the human in a nonsymmetrical, relaxed stance that appears much more realistic. This was lost during the Middle Ages and was rediscovered by artists like Donatello during the Renaissance

12. Warrior, from the sea off Riace

14. Charioteer

15. Zeus
(or Poseidon?)

16. MYRON, Diskobolos (Discus Thrower)

17. POLYKLEITOS, Doryphoros (Spear Bearer)

18. Chiastic (cross balance)
Chiastic (cross balance) is asymmetrical balance
…right arm and leg rigid & stiff creating columnar stability and anchoring
…the bent left arm and leg
…head turns right, hips twist left, back foot turns outward creating a twist in the body

19. KRESILAS, Pericles

20. Aerial View & Model of the Acropolis

21. IKTINOS and KALLIKRATES, Parthenon
picasaweb.google.com/.../7HcF7AcM6TqhilvE5xxkOg 4
puffin.creighton.edu/eselk/intro-phil_on-line...

22. PHIDIAS, Athena Parthenos
Marble
copy
Flashcard
harpy.uccs.edu/greek/sculpturefemale.html
PHIDIAS, Athena Parthenos

23. Flashcard Lapith versus centaur Stokstad, p. 191
faculty.cva.edu/Stout/Egyptian/Egyptian.html
mandarb.net/virtual_gallery/sculptures/gaul.shtml l

24. Flashcards Helios and his horses, and Dionysis
Three Goddess (Hestia, Dione, and Aphrodite?)
1. Helios
4. Nike
7. Hera
10. Atlas
2. Herakles
5. Athena
8. Hephaistos
11. The Hesperides
3. The Fates
6. Zeus
9. Hermes
12. Nyx

25. Parthenon, West Pediment: Athena vs. Poseidon

26. Details of the Panathenaic Festival procession frieze4
Gardner’s Art Through the Ages

27. Erechtheion and Plan Erechtheion from the west
Gardner’s Art Through the Ages

28. Caryatid from south porch of Erechtheion

29. Flashcards Nike adjusting her sandal KALLIKRATES,
Temple of Athena Nike
Nike adjusting her sandal
dl.ccc.cccd.edu/.../art100/imageindex.htm

30. Grave stele of Hegeso
Flashcard

31. ACHILLES PAINTER, Warrior taking leave of his wife
Lekythos
White-ground
Foreshortening
Gardner’s 11th ed., p. 137

32. NIOBID PAINTER, Artemis and Apollo slaying the children of Niobe
Krater
NIOBID PAINTER, Artemis and Apollo slaying the children of Niobe
3-Quarter Profile
web.uvic.ca/grs/bowman/myth/gods/apollo_i.html

33. Youth Diving

34. Late Classical

35. Flashcard Aphrodite of Knidos Gardner’s 11th ed., p. 139

36. Hermes and the infant Dionysos Flashcard
Gardner’s 12th ed., p. 146

37. Apoxyomenos ("The Scraper") Flashcard Stokstad, p. 204

39. Farnese Herakles
traumwerk.stanford.edu/philolog/2005/11/glauk...

40. Alexander the Great
Gardner’s 11th ed., p. 144

41. Stag hunt
Pebble mosaic
Gardner’s 11th ed., p. 145

42. Battle of Issus, (AKA Battle of Alexander the Great and Darius)
Flashcard
Battle of Issus, (AKA Battle of Alexander the Great and Darius)
Schneider Adams, p. 151

43. Theater, Epidauros Flashcard
Gardner’s 11th ed., p. 146
Stokstad, p. 210

44. THOLOS, SANCTUARY OF ATHENA PRONAIA at Delphi
Gardner’s 11th ed., p. 147

45. Choragic Monument
Gardner’s 11th ed., p. 147