Ancient Greece• Unknown period of history of Greece from end of
Mycenaean civilization to Classical civilization-approximately 1100-700 BCE
• Steady, unbroken progression and evolution in art from about 700 BCE to about 400 CE
• Independent city-states with a different form of government in each-kings, nobles, tyrants, democracy, etc.
• Interest in humanity “Man is the measure of all things”-Protagoras, 5th century BCE
• Progression styles attempt to reach the “ideal”
Funerary Vase, 750-700 BCE,
Geometric
• Dipylon Krater• Meander/keys
Pitcher, (Olpe),
ca. 600 BCE
• Horror Vacuii
Exekias, Amphora with Ajax and Achilles Playing a Game, ca. 540 BCE, Archaic
• Black figure painting• Amphora
Euthymides, Amphora with Three
Revelers, 510 BCE,Archaic
• Red Figure painting• Hubris: “Euthymides
made me as never Euphronios could do”
Euphronios and Euxitheos, Death of Sarpedon, ca. 515 BCE, Archaic
•Red Figure•Kylix
Pan Painter, Artemis Slaying Actaeon, ca. 470 BCE, Classical
• Red figure
• Bell Krater
Achilles Painter, Woman and Maid, ca. 450-440 BCE,
Classical
•White Ground
•Lekythos
Man and Centaur,
ca. 750 BCE, Geometric
Lady of Auxerre, 7th century BCE,
Oriental
•Daedalic
Calf Bearer, 560 BCE, Archaic
•Kouros figure
Peplos Kore, Archaic, 530 BCE,Archaic
• Kore figure
• peplos
Anavysos Kouros, Archaic, 530 BCE
Polykleitos, Spearbearer or
Doryphoros,450-440 BCE,
Classical
• Contrapposto• Antithesis• Chiastic • Cannon
Riace Warrior, 460-450 BCE
• Lost-wax bronze casting
Kritian Boy, Classical, 480 BCE
Myron, Discus Thrower or Diskobolos, 450 BCE, Classical
Alexander the Great, Four Drachma coin, 306-281 BCE, Hellenistic
Alexander the Great Confronts Darius III at the Battle of Issos, Moasiac, 1st century CE
• Mosaic
• Tesserae
Praxiteles, Hermes and Dionysos, late 4th
century BCE,Hellenistic
Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Knidos,
350 BCE,Hellenistic
Epigonos (?), Dying Gaul, 220 BCE, Hellenistic
Nike of Samothrace, 180 BCE, Hellenistic
Laocoon Group,
1st century CE,
Hellenistic
Old Market Woman,1st century CE,
Hellentistic
•Realism
Alexandros of Antioch-on-the-Meander,
Aphrodite of Melos (Venus de Milo),
150-100 BCE
•Archaism
