Art of Ancient Greece

1. Art of Ancient Greece

3. Major Periods • Geometric Period 900-700 BCE • Orientalizing Period 700-600 BCE • Archaic Period 600-480 BCE • Athens has a representative government; every community (deme) had its own assembly and magistrates

4. 4. Classical Period framed by the defeat of the Persians (479 BCE) and the death of Alexander the Great (323 BCE) Early Classical 480-450 BCE destruction of the Persian fleet in the Straits of Salamis, 479 BCE 5th Century Classical 450-400 BCE Pericles rebuilds the Acropolis, he dies in 429 BCE Sparta dominated the Peloponnese and much of the rest of mainland Greece;

5. 5th Century Classical 450-400 BCE (continued…) • Athens dominated the Aegean and became a wealthy and influential center of a maritime empire • the series of conflicts between Sparta and Athens became known as the Peloponnesian Wars (641-445 BCE) • 4th Century Classical 400-330 BCE • Alexander the Great died in 323 BCE at the age of 32 • 5. Hellenistic Period 320-21 BCE • Cleopatra died in 30 BCE

6. Terms and Stuff • city-state -- a polis • an autonomous region having a city as its political, cultural, religious, and economic center • for example: Athens, Sparta, Corinth or Thebes—remember Antigone • a stoa –colonnaded pavilion, open on three sides • stadium • sanctuaries • Mount Olympos • Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi (the oracle of Delphi)

7. Temples

8. a Mycenaen megaron—the source of the Greek Temple • a columned entrance porch • an anteroom with a central doorway • a living space with a central hearth and four columns supporting the roof around the opening

10. Siphnian Treasury, Delphic. 530-525 BCE

11. Temple of Athena Nike Athens, c. 425 BCE

12. Temple of Hera I, Paestum, Italy c. 550 BCE

13. Temple of Hera I, Paestum, Italy c. 550 BCE Doric order (an early version) columns with fluted shafts but without bases rest directly on the stylobate

14. Kallikrates and Iktinos Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens 447-428 BCE

15. Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens 447-428 BCE Athena Promachus (Athena the Defender)

16. The Ionic order has a frieze and a base as well as a different capital. The proportions of the Ionic order are more elongated.

20. Tholos Sanctuary of Athena Pronaia, Delphi c. 400 BCE

21. Porch of the Maidens Erechtheion Acropolis, Athens 421-405 BCE

22. Porch of the Maidens Erechtheion Acropolis, Athens 421-405 BCE

28. The Jefferson MemorialBuilt from 1939 to 1943, this Neoclassical building was designed by John Russell Pope.

29. The White House

30. Nova: The Secrets of the Parthenon

31. The Male Nude in Ancient Greek ArtHow does it change?

32. Dying Warriorpediment sculptureTemple of Aphaia, Aegina c. 480 BCEmarble, 6 feet Archaic Period

33. Anavysos Kouros c. 525 BCE Archaic Period

34. Kritian Boy480 BCE

35. Kritian Boy480 BCE

36. Warrior Ac. 460-480 BCE

39. Polykleitos Spear Bearer (Doryphoros)c. 450-440 BCE a marble copyheight: 6’6”

40. Praxiteles Hermes and the Infant Dionysos

41. LysipposThe ScraperRoman copy after an original bronze of c. 330 BCE

42. Lysippos The Scraper

43. Alexander the Great left: head from a Hellenistic copy, possibly after a 4th century original by Lysippos right: 4-drachman coin issued by Lysimachos of Thrace

44. Dying Gallic TrumpeterRoman Copy after the original bronze of c. 220 BCE

45. Dying Gallic Trumpeter

46. Dying Gallic Trumpeter