Classical Greece and It’s Aftermath
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The Art of Greece
The Periods
•The Cretan Period
•The Mycenaean Age
•Geometrical Period – The Middle Ages of Greece
•Protogeometric
•Geometric
•The Archaic Period – The Age of Colonization
•The Classical Period
•Early Classical – The Persian Wars
•Main Classical – The Age of Perikles
•Late Classical – Democracy’s Crisis
•The Hellenistic Period
2000-1400 BC
1600-1100 BC
1100-700 BC
1100-900 BC
900-700 BC
700-480 BC
480-330 BC
480-450 BC
450-400 BC
400-330 BC
from 330 BC
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EARLY CLASSICAL OR TRANSITIONAL STYLE
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Lost-Wax Hollow-Casting: The Direct Method
1.Make a clay core in the basic shape of the object.
2.Cover the clay core with a layer of wax and mold the
details of the object in the wax.
3.Paint the wax model with a layer of thin clay to pick
up the details. Then cover the object with a coarser
clay mantle. Attach the outer clay mantle to the inner
clay core with iron or bronze chaplets. Slowly bake the
clay mold so the wax melts out, then fire the mold to
make it hard.
4.Fill the space left by the wax with molten bronze.
Allow the bronze to cool, then break open the mold
and remove the bronze object. Cut off the chaplet ends
and funnels. Finally, polish the object to finish it.
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Charioteer from Delphi
(c470 BC) cast bronze
Athens, National Archaeological Museum
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Charioteer from Delphi (detail)
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Poseidon from Artemision
(c460 BC) cast bronze Athens,
National Archaeological
Museum
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Poseidon from Artemision (detail)
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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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The Statue of Zeus at Olympia
Pheidias
ca. 440 BC
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The Museum at Olympia
Sculptures from the West Pediment of the Temple of Zeus
460 BC
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The Museum at Olympia
Sculptures from the West Pediment of the Temple of Zeus
460 BC
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The Museum at Olympia
Apollo
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The Museum at Olympia
Sculptures from the East Pediment of the Temple of Zeus
460 BC
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The Museum at Olympia
Zeus
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The Museum at Olympia
Left side, with Pelops, his horses, and reclining river god in corner
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CLASSICAL GREEK SCULPTURE
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Myron
Discobolos (c450 BC)
Roman marble copy after
bronze original (Rome,
National Museum)
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Polykleitos
Doryphoros
(The Canon, or Spear Carrier)
marble
c450 BC (Vatican Museums)
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Wounded Amazon,
copies after originals
known to have been
created by
Polykleitos and
Phidias for
competition won by
Polykleitos in
Ephesos (?)(left:
Rome, Vatican
Museums) (right:
Metropolitan
Museum, New York)
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Phidias, Parthenon
sculptures (c448-432 BC)
Marble copy of Phidias's cult
statue of Athena from the
Parthenon
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Phidias, Parthenon sculptures (c448-432 BC)
The "Three Goddesses" from the east
pediment (London, British Museum)
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Phidias, Parthenon sculptures (c448-432 BC)
Metope relief from the Parthenon showing a Lapith fighting a Centaur
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The Parthenon, Athens (448-432 BC)
Iktinos and Kallikrates, architects
The Golden Mean
Acropolis
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View of south side of Acropolis with
Odeion of Herodes Atticus
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View of Propylaia and Parthenon from the
Areopagus
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reconstructed view
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East Front
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The Doric frieze with Lapiths and Centaurs
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The West Pediment, north gable
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The West Pediment, south gable
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The Erechtheion
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The Erechtheion
Porch of Maidens
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Caryatids from the Porch of
the Maidens, Erechtheion,
Acropolis, Athens
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The Theater of Dionysos, on the south slopes of the Acropolis (5th century BC)
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LATE CLASSICAL
SCULPTURE
Attributed to Praxiteles,
Hermes with the Infant
Dionysos at Olympia (c340
BC) marble copy(?) after
marble or bronze original
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Attributed to Euphranor, Bronze figure (Paris?) found at Antikythera
(Athens, National Museum, c340 BC)
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Apoxyomenos ("The Scraper")
Roman marble copy after c330
bronze original (Rome, Vatican
Museums)
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Hellenistic Greek Sculpture
Dying Gaul from Monument to Attalos II, Pergamon (Roman
marble copy after c240 bronze, Rome, Capitoline Museum)
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Agesander, Athanodorus and
Polydoros, The Laocöon Group
(Rome, Vatican Museums)
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Venus de Milo
Parian marble, h 2.02 m (6 1/2 ft)
Found at Melos (the Cyclades islands)
130-120 BC
Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Nike of Samothrace, 240-190 BC
(Paris, Louvre)
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Old Market woman (New
York, Metropolitan
Museum)
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Apollonios, Seated Boxer
(Rome, Museo delle Terme)
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red figure kylix, 5th century BC: over-shoulder throw
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