CLASSICAL ART & ARCHITECTURE

CYCLADIC CULTURE

• 3000 – 2000 BC• CYCLADES: AN ISLAND GROUP

NORTH OF CRETE• SCULPTURE CHARACTERIZED BY

RECTANGULAR ANGULARITY AND AN ABSTRACT SIMPLICITY

• CARVED IN PRISTINE WHITE MARBLE

ZOOMORPHIC CLAY VESSAL

MINOAN CIVILIZATION

• 2600 – 1100 BC

• THE ISLAND OF CRETE

• NAMED AFTER KING MINOS

• TRADE EMPIRE

• PLAYFUL THEMES

BULL LEAPER

SNAKE GODDESS

MYCENAEAN CULTURE

• 1600 BC – 1110 BC

• GREEK MAINLAND

• WAR-LIKE

• SPOKE A GREEK LANGUAGE & WORSHIPPED GREEK GODS

Lion’s Gate

Agamemnon's Death Mask

ARCHAIC PERIOD

• 750 BC – 500 BC

• DORIAN INVASION “DARK AGES”

KOUROS

PEPLOS

CALF BEARER

CLASSICAL

• 500BC – 323BC

• MEDIUMS – STONE & BRONZE

KRITIOS BOY

480 BC

DISKOBOLOS

450 BC

AMAZONS

DORIC COLUMNS

IONIC COLUMNS

CORINTHIANCOLUMN

ACROPOLIS

PARTHENON

TEMPLE OF

ATHENA NIKE

ERECTHEION

HELLENISTIC SCULPTURE

• 323 BC – 30 BC• AFTER THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER

THE GREAT, UNTIL THE BEGINNING OF THE EMPIRE STAGE OF ROME

• INNER EMOTIONS WERE MORE IMPORTANT THAN BEAUTY

• CONCERNED MORE WITH REALITY THAN IDEALISTIC MAN

AKA NIKE OF AKA NIKE OF SAMOTHRACESAMOTHRACE

FOUND IN 1863FOUND IN 1863

FOR GREEK NAVAL FOR GREEK NAVAL VICTORYVICTORY

THE WIND BECOMES A THE WIND BECOMES A TANGIBLE PRESENCE AS IT TANGIBLE PRESENCE AS IT SHAPES THE FOLDS OF SHAPES THE FOLDS OF THE DRESSTHE DRESS

WINGED VICTORYWINGED VICTORY

DYING GAUL

• NOTABLE FOR THE REALISTIC & SYMPATHETIC PORTRAYAL OF A DYING GALLIC TRIBESMEN

• NOTE THE HAIR AND NECKLACE

LAOCOON

• DRAMATIC VERSION OF FATE OF TROJAN PRIEST, PUNISHED BY SEA SERPENTS FOR TRYING TO WARN OF TROJAN HORSE SCHEME

• INFLUENCED MICHELANGELO