UNIT 5 STUDY GUIDE
Ancient Greek Art
(AP Art History)
Book
Chapter 5—Gods, Heroes, and Athletes: The Art of Ancient Greece,
Helpful Text Boxes—
The Gods and Goddesses of Mt. Olympus, p. 107
Doric and Ionic Temples, p. 116
Polykleitos’s Prescription for the Perfect Statue, p. 133
A Greek Woman in Her Father’s Home, p. 142
Pages 105-166
Assignment
Read Chapter 5 and answer the following question in about a half page handwritten (legibly) in your notebook:
1. For what purposes did the Greeks use ceramics? How did the design and painting of these vessels reflect their
function? What changes may be seen in Greek vase painting of the High Classical Period as compared to earlier
periods?
Answer
the following questions with a whole handwritten page:
2. Describe the basic characteristics of each of the following periods, talk a little about politics and give one example of an
artwork from each: Geometric, Orientalizing, Classical, High-Classical, Hellenistic
3. How does Greek art reflect a rational observation of the world?
Also, pick 10 terms from the “Terms” section that you do not known and define them in your notebook. Use your own words
and images to define and describe the term.
Terms
(be able to identify these by sight, explain these in relation to art, and know an example of each in relation to a work of art)
Athens and Sparta
frieze
polis=city-state
metope
Dorian and Ionian Greeks
Doric and Ionic columns
areté=excellence + more
pediment
black figure style
Greeks vs. Persians
red figure style
Battle of Salamis
kore (korai) and kouros (kouroi)
Delian League
Archaic smile
“golden mean”
encaustic
Severe Style
cella
contrapposto
entasis
lost wax method (cire perdue)
fluting
Roman copies of Greek statues
entablature
Greek Orders of Columns (most important terms circled—your text also has a diagram):
canon of proportions
Athenian Acropolis
Pericles
Lord Elgin and the “Elgin Marbles”
Phidias
wet drapery
Panathenaic Festival
caryatid
Alexander the Great
Greek panel painting
Greek theaters
Corinthian columns
Art Works
(know these works by sight, title, date, medium, scale, and location (original location also if moved) and be able to explain and
analyze these in relation to any concept, term, element, or principle)
Geometric Art
− Geometric krater, from the Dipylon cemetery, Athens, Greece, ca. 740 BCE. 3’ 4 1/2” high.
Orientalizing Period
− Lady of Auxerre, ca. 650–625 BCE. Limestone, 2’ 1 1/2” high.
Archaic Period
− Kroisos, from Anavysos, Greece, ca. 530 BCE. Marble, 6’ 4” high.
− Temple of Hera I (“Basilica”), Paestum, Italy, ca. 550 BCE.
− Exekias, Dionysus in a Sailboat, c.540BC
Classical Period
− Temple of Hera II, Paestum, Italy, ca. 460 BCE.
− Kritios Boy, from the Acropolis, Athens, Greece, ca. 480 BCE. Marble, 2’ 10” high.
− Warrior, from the sea off Riace, Italy, ca. 460–450 BCE. Bronze, 6’ 6” high.
− Charioteer, from the Sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi, c.470BC
− MYRON, Diskobolos (Discus Thrower). Roman marble copy of a bronze original of ca. 450 BCE, 5’ 1” high.
− POLYKLEITOS, Doryphoros (Spear Bearer). Roman marble copy from Pompeii, Italy, after a bronze original of ca.
450–440 BCE, 6’ 11” high.
Athenian Acropolis
o IKTINOS and KALLIKRATES, Parthenon, (Temple of Athena Parthenos, looking southeast), Acropolis, Athens,
Greece, 447–438 BCE.
o Plan of the Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, Greece, with diagram of sculptural program (after Andrew Stewart),
447–432 BCE.
o PHIDIAS, Athena Parthenos, in the cella of the Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, Greece, ca. 438 BCE. Model of the
lost chryselephantine statue. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.
o Three goddesses (Hestia, Dione, and Aphrodite?), from the east pediment of the Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens,
Greece, ca. 438–432 BCE. Marble, greatest height 4’ 5”.
o MNESIKLES, Propylaia (looking southwest), Acropolis, Athens, Greece, 437–432 BCE.
o Erechtheion (looking northwest), Acropolis, Athens, Greece, ca. 421–405 BCE.
o Caryatid from the south porch of the Erechtheion, Acropolis, Athens, Greece, ca. 421–405 BCE. Marble, 7’ 7”
high.
o Plan of the Erechtheion, Acropolis, Athens, Greece, ca. 421–405 BCE.
o KALLIKRATES, Temple of Athena Nike (looking southwest), Acropolis, Athens, Greece, ca. 427–424 BCE.
− Grave stele of Hegeso, from the Dipylon cemetery, Athens, Greece, ca. 400 BCE. Marble, 5’ 2” high.
Late Classical Period
− PRAXITELES(?), Hermes and the infant Dionysos, from the Temple of Hera, Olympia, Greece. Copy of a statue by
Praxiteles of ca. 340 BCE or an original work of ca. 330–270 BCE by a son or grandson. Marble, 7’ 1” high.
− LYSIPPOS, Apoxyomenos (Scraper). Roman marble copy of a bronze original of ca. 330 BCE, 6’ 9” high.
− PHILOXENOS OF ERETRIA, Battle of Issus, ca. 310 BCE. Roman copy (Alexander Mosaic) from the House of the Faun,
Pompeii, Italy, late second or early first century BCE. Tessera mosaic, approx. 8’ 10” X 16’ 9”.
− Tomb at Halikarnassos for Mausolus, destroyed
Hellenistic Period
− Reconstructed west front of the Altar of Zeus, Pergamon, Turkey, ca. 175 BCE.
− Nike alighting on a warship (Nike of Samothrace), from Samothrace, Greece, ca. 190 BCE. Marble, figure 8’ 1” high.
− ALEXANDROS OF ANTIOCH-ON-THE-MEANDER, Aphrodite (Venus de Milo), from Melos, Greece, ca. 150–125 BCE.
Marble, 6’ 7” high.
Hellenistic Period under Roman patronage
o ATHANADOROS, HAGESANDROS, and POLYDOROS OF RHODES, Laocoön and his sons, from Rome, Italy, early
first century CE Marble, 7’ 10 1/2” high.