Art of Ancient Greece

1. Art of Ancient Greece

2. 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 • the importance of the procession • The Agora • Entasis sanctuaries • Mount Olympos • Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi (the oracle of Delphi)

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; • 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)

5. 4. Classical Period (continued) framed by the defeat of the Persians (479 BCE) and the death of Alexander the Great (323 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. Temples

7. 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

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

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 5th Century Classical

15. Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens 447-428 BCE Athena Parthenosthe cult figure of Athena

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

17. caryatid