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1. Greek Art Lecture Rod Miller Mt. Olympus
2. Today’s Objectives
Basic concepts about looking at art
Introduction to Greek Art
Some info on the Parthenon
Two examples of Greek thinking manifest in their art: Man as measure and Man vs. Fate
To Be Courteous, Kind and Forgiving
3. Dipylon Vase c.8th Century BC
4. Dipylon Vase Detail
5. Geometric Vase, c.1200-1000BC
6. Dipylon Vase, Again.
7. Dipylon Krater c.8th Century BC
8. Herakles and the three-bodied monster Geryon, 550BC
9. Achilles and Agamemnon c.540BC
10. Olympic Racers, Detail
11. Herakles and the Libyan giant Antaeus, c.515-510 BC
12. Battle of the Amazons and Battle of the Giants c.400BC
13. "Wonders are there many none more wonderful than man.” Antigone, Sophokles
14. (Bad image of a) Geometric Sculpture Man and Centaur, c.800BC
15. Kouros, c.575-570BC, Bronze
16. Kouros 600BC
17. Kore 530BC
18. Kore 510BC
19. Cleobis and Biton, c.600BC
20. Kritios Boy 480BC
21. Discobolis 450BC
22. Doryphorus Polykleitos, 450BC
23. Amazons
24. Dying Niobid 450BC
25. Zeus (or Poseidon) 460BC
26. Claudius Galenus, 130 (Commenting on Polykleitos’ “Canon”) The beauty or perfection of a human figure arises not in the commensurability or The beauty or perfection of a human figure arises not in the commensurability or symmetria of its consitutent parts but in the commensurability such as that of finger to finger, and of of all the fingers to the palm and wrist, and of these of the forearm, and of the forearm to the upper arm, and, in fact, of everything to everything else.in the commensurability such as that of finger to finger, and of of all the fingers to the palm and wrist, and of these of the forearm, and of the forearm to the upper arm, and, in fact, of everything to everything else.
27. “Man as measure of all things.” Protagoras 480-410BC
28. Doric and Ionic elevations
29. Temple of Hera, Paestum 470BC
30. Temple of Apollo, Delphi c.7th Century BC
31. Studies in Proportion Francesco di Giorgio, (Turin Codex), 15th Century
32. Caryatid Figures, Erechtheum
33. Parthenon and Erechthium Ictinus and Callicrates with Phidias, 477- 438BC
34. Acropolis Plan
35. Processional to Acropolis
36. Parthenon floor plan
37. Conceptual drawing of Parthenon Interior
38. Parthenon (in Nashville)
39. Nashville Parthenon profile
40. “The man who has been properly nurtured in this area [Beauty] will be keenly aware of things which have been neglected, things not beautifully made by art or nature. He will rightly resent them, he will praise beautiful things, rejoice in them, receive them into his soul, be nurtured by them and become both good and beautiful in character.” Plato, Republic
41. Parthenon sculptural placement diagram
42. Parthenon, detail showing Metopes
43. Parthenon Metope, “Centaur and Lapith”
44. Parthenon, detail showing painted features.
45. Nashville Partheon, west pediment, “Birth of Athena”
46. Partheon Pediment Figures, “Three Unknown Goddesses”
47. Parthenon Freize, “Maidens”
48. Partheon Freize, “Lowing Cow”
49. Parthenon Freize, reconstructed with painted details
50. Sculptural Plan of Parthenon Pediment (West) Birth of Athena
Pediment (East), Battle for Control of Athens
Frieze, Processional
Metopes (East) Giants and gods
(West) Greeks and Amazons
(North) Trojans
(South) Lapiths
51. Alexander
52. The bodies of dying men lay one upon the other, and half-dead creatures reeled about the streets and gathered round all the foundatins in their longing for water. The sacred places also in which they had quartered themselves were full of corpses of persons that had died there, just as they were; for as the disaster passed all bounds, men, no knowing what was to become of them, became utterly careless of everything, whether sacred or profane. Fear of the gods or law of man there was none to restrain them.
Thucydides
53. Laocöon c.1st Century BC
