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ANCIENT greek art

Gardner's art through the ages pages 102-161

Dates to Know

Archaic Period: ca. 625-480 B.C.E.

Doric & Ionic columns

Stiff figures with archaic smiles

Black & Red Figure ceramics

Classical Period: ca. 480-323 B.C.E.

CONTRAPOSTO pose of figures

Polykleitos Canon of Proportions

Acropolis

Humanization of Gods

Corinthian columns

Hellenistic Period: ca. 323-30 B.C.E

Death of Alexander to Death of Cleopatra

Break from traditional subjects & styles

Emotion, Humanity, Suffering in Figures

Vocabulary

Facade                  Gigantomachy         Architrave

Colonnade            Metope                     Stereobate

Portico                  Cornice                     Peplos

Peripteral             Pediment                  Volute

Peristyle               Triglyph                    Appropriation

Entasis                  Stylobate                 Patina

Stoa                       Shaman                  Serpentine

Frieze                    Naos                        Dipylon

Amphora               Verisimilitude         Horror Vacui

Contrapposto        Entablature            Cella

Chiastic                 Opisthodomus        Pronaos

Ionic                       Doric                       Bronze             

CONCEPTS

FOCUSED ON GODS

IDEALIZATION AND HARMONIC PROPORTIONS

LARGE CIVIC & RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS

BUILDING BLOCK OF EUROPEAN ART TRADITIONS

WRITTEN DOCUMENTS

THEMES

Power

Ideals of Beauty

smarthistory

khan academy

YouTube playlist

useful notes website

AP Art History images/flashcards

Image Folder

26. Athenian agora. Archaic through Hellenistic Greek. 600 B.C.E.–150 C.E. Plan.

27. Anavysos Kouros. Archaic Greek. c. 530 B.C.E. Marble with remnants of paint.

28. Peplos Kore from the Acropolis. Archaic Greek. c. 530 B.C.E. Marble, painted details.

33. Niobides Krater. Anonymous vase painter of Classical Greece known as the Niobid Painter. c. 460–450 B.C.E. Clay, red-figure technique (white highlights). (2 images)

34. Doryphoros (Spear Bearer). Polykleitos. Original 450–440 B.C.E. Roman copy (marble) of Greek original (bronze).

35. Acropolis. Athens, Greece. Iktinos and Kallikrates. c. 447–410 B.C.E. Marble. (6 images)

36. Grave stele of Hegeso. Attributed to Kallimachos. c. 410 B.C.E. Marble and paint.

37. Winged Victory of Samothrace. Hellenistic Greek. c. 190 B.C.E. Marble.

38. Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon. Asia Minor (present-day Turkey). Hellenistic Greek. c. 175 B.C.E. Marble (architecture and sculpture). (3 images)

41. Seated boxer. Hellenistic Greek. c. 100 B.C.E. Bronze.

Additional Images

Kritios Boy

Dying Warrior East Pediment Aphaia (Archaic)

Dying Warrior East Pediment Aphaia

Delphi Charioteer

Greek Orders

Aphrodite of Knidos

Laocoon and His Sons

 

© 2019 by Gillian Bailey

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