Ancient Greece c. 1000- 31 bce
Classical 480-323 bce
Ideal
Lekythos
Mosaic, tesserae
contrapposto
Kritios Boy 480 bce
Myron
Riace
lost wax bronze casting
Polykleitos, Doryphorus, Amazon*
Canon
Temple of Zeus, Olympia, lapiths, centaurs c. 460 bce
Acropolis
Phidias, Pericles
Propylaea (gateway)
Parthenon, Ictinus, Kallikrates c. 447 bce Phidias
Temple of Athena Nike 410 bce,
Erecthium, caryatid
Theatre at Epidaurus
Praxiteles
Lyssipus
The Acropolis, Athens 450-400 bce
Pericles, Phidias & Ictinus, Kallikrates & Mneskles
Leo von Klenze, The Acropolis, 1846
Propylaea
By Mneskles
Propylaia-Mnesiklese
Kallikrates,
Little Temple of Athena Nike
425 bce
Kallikrates,
Little Temple of Athena Nike
425 bce
Propylaea
Looking toward
the picture gallery
Nike
By Phidias
The Parthenon, Iktinos & Kallikrates, c. 447-438 bce
Diagram in exaggerated proportion of the horizontal curvature
of the Parthenon.
Richard G. Tansey and Fred S. Kleiner, Gardner's Art Through the Ages.
10th ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1996.
Architectural Sculpture – Phidias
Metopes, Pediment & Frieze
Pedimental Sculpture by Phidias
East Pediment Birth of Athena
Elgin Marbles, British Museum, London
Elgin Marbles, British Museum, London
Dionysius
Goddesses
Phidian drapery
West Pediment Athena & Poseidon’s Gifts
(plaster cast)
Parthenon Nashville Tennessee
Mneskles, Erecthium, c. 430’s bce
West facade
North Porch
Porch of the Maidens (caryatids)
Tholos, Circular Temple or Shrine (Delphi)
Pebble Mosaics
Amphitheater at Epidaurus, 350 bce
Corinthian Order
Decorative Floor Mosaics
Pebble mosaics
Name motifs?
(fm Carthage mosaic below)
Alexander the Great confronts Darius III – Battle of Issos
Roman copy Greek ptg from 300 BCE, Pompeii
Reconstructed floor mosaic….
Parents of Alexander the Great
Mother, Olympias father Phillip
Alexander as Apollo, By Lysippus c. 330 bce
Gold jewelry 4th century bce
Ganymede Earrings,
Macedonia c. 300 bce
The End of Classical….on to Hellenistic!