Greek Art Chapter 5 Geometric Period Very typical

Greek Art Chapter 5

Geometric Period • Very typical of this period were large funerary vases designed to hold votive offerings • Decoration was primarily abstract forms, flat patterns, outlined shapes that represent various human forms in poses of anguish. • Repetition used.

Geometric & Orientalizing • After destruction of Mycenaean palaces, the bronze age disintegrated, loss of kings as powerful rulers. Also lost many art forms (how to construct tombs, citadels, frescoes, sculpt with stone) also lost writing and reading. • This was deemed the “Dark Age of Greece” • Depopulation • Poverty • Loss of contact with outside world

Geometric Krater, 740 bce IN THE MET

Hero & Centaur, 750 -730 bce

Orientalizing Period • More and more attention being paid to the human form/body • This period was influenced by Eastern works being brought in for trade, as trade was on the rise. Borrowed motifs from Egypt and Near East

Mantiklos Apollo, 700 -680 bce

Athenian Agora, Hellenistic 600 -BCE-150 CE

Corinthian Black Figure Amphora with Animal Frieze 625 -600 bce

Lady of Auxerre, 650 -625 bce

The 3 styles of Greek Sculpture • Archaic: stiff body pose, feet together, and arms close to the body. • Classical: more lifelike body, more natural form with movement, calmness, appearance of the contrapposto pose • Hellenistic: evokes emotion, more lifelike detail, greater movement

Archaic Period • More sense of permanency, temples built of stone, not mud brick • The two orders were used (see handout) • Archaic statuary was usually life-size or larger, and painted. Most share an expression “archaic smile”. Possibly used to signify that the subject was still living. • Kore/Korai = female youth • Kouros/Kouroi = male youth

2 important differences between Archaic Greek and Egyptian sculpture • Sculptures of men were unclothed • Sculptures were free from the stone in which they were carved

Kouros, 600 bce

Moschophorus (Calf Bearer), 560 bce

Anavyos Kouros, 530 bce

Kore, from Peplos, 530 bce

Kore, from the Acropolis, 520 -510 bce

Doric Ionic

Doric & Ionic

DORIC v. IONIC • Doric Temples are found on Greek mainland. • Ionic Temples are found on the islands. • Athens is an exception, and you can find many Ionic temples, characteristics in their designs, especially on the Acropolis. • Any temple containing a caryatid, is considered Ionic.

Typical Greek Temple Plan

Temple of Hera I, 550 bce

West pediment, Temple of Artemis, 600 -580 bce

Siphnian Treasury, Reconstruction Drawing

Siphnian Treasury Frieze from North, 530 bce

Vase Painting • Athens was the main location for the production of vases during the archaic period. • Black Figure technique used as well as red-figure technique

Kleitias & Ergotimos, Francios Vase, 570 bce

Exekias, Ajax & Achilles Playing a Game, 530 bce

Andokides Painter, Ajax & Achilles Playing a Game 525 -520 bce

Niobides Krater, 460 -450 BCE

Temple of Aphaia at Aegina, 500 BC

Restored view Temple of Aphaia

Dying Warrior, top (490 bce)west pediment of Temple Aphaia bottom (480 bce) east pediment of Temple Aphaia

Early Classical Period • Early 5 th century, Greek city states united to fight the Persian Army, but defeat of Persians came after Athens was already destroyed

Architecture/Architectural Structure • Pieces from this period represent a time of transition. • Temples more compact, columns more spaced out • Pediment Statuary is more life-size and displays a variety of movement and action

Temple of Hera II, (closely resemble Temple of Zeus 470 BC) 460 BC

Seer, from Temple of Zeus pediment 470 BC

Athena, Herakles, Atlas with Apples from metope Temple of Zeus, 470 -465 bce

Sculpture • New concern to render the human form in natural poses that illustrate how a human usually stands.

Kritios Boy, 480 bce

Young Warrior from Riace, 460 -450 bce

Charioteer, 470 bce

Zeus (or Poseidon? ), 460 -450 bce

Myron, Diskobolos, 450 bce

Polykleitos, Doryphorus, 450 bce

Kresilas, Pericles, 429 bce

Athens Acropolis Plan

Acropolis, restored view

Parthenon, 447 -438 bce

Phidias, Athena Parthenos (model)438 bce

Lapith Fighting Centaur, 447 -438 bce

Helios, horses & Dionysus, pediment at Parthenon

Plaque of the Ergastines

Three Goddesses, east pediment of Parthenon), 438 bce

Horsemen, detail from procession, Parthenon, 447 bce

Propylaia, 437 bce

Erechtheion, Porch of Maidens (caryatids), 421 -405 bce

Porch of the Maidens

Temple of Athena Nike, 427 bce

Nike Adjusting Her Sandal, 410 bce

Achilles Painter, 440 bce

Grave Stele of Hegeso, High Classical

Late Classical Period • Arts continued to flourish despite the defeat by Sparta. Athens never regained their empire status. New art forms (mosaics) flourished as well as new styles (tholos temple)

Praxiteles, Aphrodite, 350 -340 bce

Praxiteles, Hermes and Infant Dionysos, 340 bce

Lysippos, Apoxyomenos (The Scraper), 330 bce

Lysippos, Weary Herakles, 320 bce

Polykleitos’ Doryphorus vs. Apoxyomenos’The Scraper

Hellenistic Period

Altar of Zeus, Pergamon

Athena battling Alkyoneos 175 bce

Dying Gaul, Epigonos, 230 bce

Nike Samothrace, 190 bce

Venus de Milo 150 -125 BC

Seated Boxer 100 -50 BC

Old Market Woman, 150 -100 BC IN THE MET

Laocoon sons

Athanadoros, Hagesandros & Polydorso, Head of Odysseus, 1 st century ce