Greek Art and Architecture
Images to Identify:
Geometric Period
• Centaur
• Krater, from Dipylon Cemetery, Athens
• Man and Centaur, perhaps from Olympia
Orientalizing Period
• Mantiklos Apollo
• Pitcher (olpe), from Corinth
• Woman of Auxerre
Archaic Period
• Berlin Kore
• Corner view of the Temple of Hera I, Paestum, Italy
• Dying Warrior, from left corner of the east pediment of the Temple of Aphaia,
Aegina
• East Pediment of the Temple of Aphaia, Aegina
• Elements of Architecture, The Greek Architectural Orders
• Euphronios (painter) and Euxitheos (potter), Death of Sarpedon
• Euphronios, Herakles Wrestling Antaios, red-figure vase
• Euthymides, Three Revelers, red-figure vase
• Exekias, Achilles and Ajax Playing a Dice Game, black-figure vase
• Exekias, Dionysos in a Boat, black-figure vase
• Exekias, The Suicide of Ajax, black-figure vase
• Kore, from Chios
• Kroisos, from Anavysos
• Medusa, fragment of sculpture from the west pediment of the Temple of
Artemis, Korkyra (Corfu)
• (New York) Kouros
• Peplos Kore
• Reconstruction of the west pediment of the Temple of Artemis, Korkyra (Corfu)
Classical Period
Transitional or Early Classical Period
• Temple of Hera II, Paestum, Italy
• Apollo with Battling Lapiths and Centaurs, West pediment of the Temple of
Zeus, Olympia
• Charioteer
• Kritios Boy
• Myron, Diskobolos (Discus Thrower) (Roman copy)
• Pan Painter, Artemis Slaying Actaeon
• Warrior A (Riace Bronze)
High Classical Period
• East Pediment of the Parthenon
• Erechtheion, Acropolis, Athens
• Horsemen, detail of the Panathenaic Procession, from the Ionic frieze on the
north side of the Parthenon
• Kallikrates and Iktinos, Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens
• Kallikrates, Temple of Athena Nike, Acropolis, Athens
• Lapith Fighting a Centaur, metope relief, from the Doric frieze on the south side
of the Parthenon
• Marshals and Young Women, detail of the Panathenaic Procession, from the
Ionic frieze on the east side of the Parthenon
• Model of the Acropolis, Athens
• Nike (Victory) Adjusting Her Sandal, fragment of relief decoration from the
parapet (now destroyed), Temple of Athena Nike, Acropolis, Athens
• Phidias, Athena Parthenos, model of lost statue
• Photographic mock-up of the east pediment of the Parthenon
• Polykleitos, Spear Bearer (Doryphoros) (Roman copy)
• Porch of the Maidens, (Caryatid Porch), Erechtheion, Acropolis, Athens
• Three Goddesses, from the east pediment, Parthenon
Late Classical Period
• Lysippos (?), Alexander the Great
• Lysippos, Apoxyomenos (Scraper) (Roman copy)
• Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Knidos (Roman copy)
• (Followers of) Praxiteles, Hermes and the Infant Dionysos (Roman copy)
Hellenistic Period
• Alexandros of Antioch-on-the-Meander, Aphrodite of Melos (Venus de Milo)
• Athanadoros, Hagesandros, and Polydoros of Rhodes, Laocoön and His Sons
• Athena Attacking the Giants, detail of the frieze from the east front of the Altar
from Pergamon
• Epigonos(?), Dying Gallic Trumpeter
• Nike (Victory) of Samothrace
• Reconstructed west front of the Altar from Pergamon, Turkey
Vocabulary:
abacus
acanthus leaf
acropolis
Archaic smile
architrave
base
black-figure painting
The Canon
capital
caryatid
cella (naos)
centaur
column
contrapposto (counterbalance)
Doric order, Ionic order, Corinthian order
drum
echinus
entablature
entasis
frieze
kore (korai, pl.)
kouros (kouroi, pl.)
kylix
metope
naturalism
Panathenaic Procession
pediment
Peloponnesian War
peplos
peristyle
Persian War
pronaos
red-figure painting
shaft
stereobate
strigil
stylobate
triglyph
volute
Who was who in ancient Greece:
Alexander the Great
Antigonus (Antigonid Dynasty)
Aphrodite
Athanadoros
Athena
Attalos I
Dionysos
Exekias
Hagesandros
Herakles
Hermes
Iktinos
Kallikrates
Lysippos
Medusa
Mnesikles
Perikles (also spelled Pericles)
Pheidias (also spelled Phidias)
Polydoros
Polykleitos
Praxiteles
Ptolemy (Ptolemaic Dynasty)
Seleucus (Seleucid Dynasty)
Skopas
Be able to list/distinguish the five Greek periods: Geometric, Orientalizing (which
is not discussed in your book), Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic.
Be able to label/identify the components of the Greek Doric and Ionic orders as
illustrated on page 100, Elementst of Architecture.