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Early Greek Art and Architecture

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The Art of GreeceThe Periods•The Cretan Period 2000-1400 BC•The Mycenaean Age 1600-1100 BC•Geometrical Period – The Middle Ages of Greece 1100-700 BC

•Protogeometric 1100-900 BC•Geometric 900-700 BC

•The Archaic Period – The Age of Colonization 700-480 BC•The Classical Period 480-330 BC

•Early Classical – The Persian Wars 480-450 BC•Main Classical – The Age of Perikles 450-400 BC•Late Classical – Democracy’s Crisis 400-330 BC

•The Hellenistic Period from 330 BC

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Protogeometric 1000-900 B.C.Amphora

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Geometric 900-700 B.C.Amphora 

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Geometric amphora from the Dipylon. The band in the height of the handles includes a metope with the main scene of the prothesis of the deceased (laying out of the dead on a couch). The vase was used as a funerary monument at the Dipylon of Kerameikos, in Athens, and it is the work of the "Dipylon painter". Dated to the middle of the 8th century B.C.

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Funeral Amphora

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Dipylon Krater (Geometric style), from the Dipylon Cemetary, Athens, 8th c. B.C.

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The Statue of Zeus at Olympia

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Magna Graecia, Paestum "Basilica" (Temple of Hera I): [L. foreground].ca. 550-530 B.C.;Temple of Poseidon (Temple of Hera II): [R. background], view from SE..ca. 460 B.C.

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Magna Graecia, Paestum

"Basilica" (Temple of Hera I): view from NE..ca. 550-530 B.C.

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Magna Graecia, Paestum Temple of Poseidon (Temple of Hera II): view from SE..

ca. 460 B.C.

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Greek, Late Archaic Temple of Aphaia Aegina: view from E.

ca. 500-490 B.C.

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Greek, Late Archaic

Fallen Warrior: figure from R. angle of W. pediment, Temple of Aphaia, Aegina.ca. 500-490 B.C.

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Greek, Late Archaic

Fallen Warrior: detail, head of figure from R. angle of W. pediment, Temple of Aphaia, Aegina.ca. 500-490 B.C.

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Greek, Late Archaic

Herakles as Archer: figure from R. angle of E. pediment, Temple of Aphaia, Aegina.ca. 500-490 B.C

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Greek, Late Archaic

Dying Warrior: figure from L. angle of E. pediment, Temple of Aphaia, Aegina.ca. 500-490 B.C.

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Greek, Late Archaic Dying Warrior: detail of figure from L. angle of E. pediment, Temple of

Aphaia, Aegina.ca. 500-490 B.C.

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Temple of Apollo, Delphi: view from NW., (Alkmeionid E. front, 513-505 B.C.; rebuilt 366-326 B.C.).

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Ionic and Doric Orders

There are two main orders in Greek Temples, regardless of their scale. The Ionic order was developed in Ionian regions of the west coast of Asia Minor, the Doric order was favoured in Dorian area, though the basic element is same.

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"Lady of Auxerre" Kore figure:detail, head and torso.ca. 640-630 B.C.

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Kouros from Attica ca. 600-590 B.C.

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"Peplos" Kore:

ca. 530 B.C.

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Kore from Chios:

ca. 520-510 B.C.

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Calf-bearer (Moschophoros):detail, head and shoulders.ca. 560 B.C.

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Stele of Aristionby Aristoklesc. 510 B.C.National ArchaeologicalMuseum, Athens

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Hercules fighting two Amazons.Black-figure amphora.Period: Archaic period ca 700-530 BCCourtesy of University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

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Hephaestus opens the forehead of Zeus so Athena can be born.Shape: cylix Technique: black-figure Illustration: no perspective, no depth, all characters are placed on one baseline. Thunderbolt (Zeus), Shield (Athena), double axe (Hephaestus). Interpretation: The birth of Athena.Period: archaic

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Centaurs Red-figure potteryPeriod: Late Archaic 530-580 BCCourtesy of The National Museum of Denmark

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Dionysus feast - dancing Satyrs (other side) Red-figure olpe ca. 500-480 BCPeriod: Late Archaic

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A beautiful Black-figured White-ground Lekythos (oil flask). Peleus wrestling with Thetis - Made in Athens about 490 -480 BC - said to be from Thebes. Period: Late Archaic

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CorinthianCa 600 BC

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