SCULPTURE:
BRONZE AGE:
EARLY:
Cycladic Figurines: (from the islands)
- Female figures, male figures, and musician figures
- Made from marble
- Very abstract, angular shapes
- “Spedos Type” – folded arm figurines
MIDDLE:
Minoan:
- Snake goddesses/attendant
- Male and female votive dedications (from terracotta) – depict common respectful stances
- Work to realistically depict body forms
- Use of ivory
LATE:
Minoan:
- Female terracotta goddess figures – partially wheel made!
Helladic:
- Phi and Psi figurines, terracotta – distinctly Mycenaean
GEOMETRIC AGE:
- Terracotta still used, also bronze
- Animal and hybrid figures more common, still in shrines
- Human warrior figures are more popular
- Use of ivory
- Angled features – geometric style
ORIENTALIZING PERIOD:
- Still the warrior type
- Bronze becomes more valuable/prized (terracotta still used)
- Anatomy discussed in geometric terms – but becoming more realistic
- Daedalic figures: triangular face, low forehead, big eyes and nose, flat skull, stylized hair
- Interest in creating more life-size figures: Influence from the Egyptians!!
- Very two dimensional
ARCHAIC:
- Introduction of architectural sculpture, grand scale
- Pediments, metopes, friezes, acroteria
- Done in relief
- More life size figures: Kouroi and Korai
- Very stylized – influenced from the East
- Become more naturalistic
- Male nude, clothed female
- Kouros: left leg forward, arms by the side, archaic smile, bulging eyes, stylized (long!) hair,
- Korai: trouble rendering natural drape folds and body under the cloth
SEVERE STYLE:
- Architectural sculpture (grand scale)
- Friezes/Metopes becoming higher relief, more interesting/difficult poses of figures
- In the Round:
- Preferred material is bronze
- Contrapposto
- Big chin, flat cheeks, thick eyelids, and a composed expression, rolled hair
- Realism in depiction of cloth and its relationship to the body
- Idealized body type
HIGH CLASSICAL:
- Wet style drapery – Parthenon
- Layering of figures in friezes and metopes, much more crowded
- Experimentation with different poses
LATE CLASSICAL:
- Move toward more naturalistic representation of the human figure
- Growing interest in showing emotion, character, age, mood
- Relationship with surrounding space (extended hand)
- Realistic relationship between cloth and body
- Nude female!
HELLENISTIC: (300BC - )
- Diversity in form and psychological presentation
- Realism, variety, and diversity
- Human experience and expression
- Personification and allegory