Art of Ancient Greece Major Periods 1 Geometric

Art of Ancient Greece

Major Periods 1. Geometric Period 900 -700 BCE 2. Orientalizing Period 700 -600 BCE 3. Archaic Period 600 -480 BCE Athens has a representative government; every community (deme) had its own assembly and magistrates

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 5 th 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 th 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) 4 th 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

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)

Temples

a Mycenaen megaron—the source of the Greek Temple 1. a columned entrance porch 2. an anteroom with a central doorway 3. a living space with a central hearth and four columns supporting the roof around the opening

Siphnian Treasury, Delphi c. 530 -525 BCE

Temple of Athena Nike Athens, c. 425 BCE

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

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

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

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

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

Tholos Sanctuary of Athena Pronaia, Delphi c. 400 BCE

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

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

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

The White House

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