The Art of
Ancient Greece
c. 750-300 BCE
Map
of
Ancient
Greece
Geometric
c. 750 BCE
Geometric amphora,
two handled storage
jar, 8th Century BCE;
From Dipylon
Orientalizing
c. 650 BCE
Polyphemos
Painter,
amphora
675-650 BCE
Orientalizing
Style
Archaic Style (from the
Greek word archaios,
meaning “old”)
(c. 550 BCE)
Priam Painter,
Women at a
Fountain House,
c. 520-510 BCE.
Panathenaic
Amphora
with
Runners,
c. 520 BCE,
Attributed to
Euphiletos
painter.
Exekias, amphora
Achilles and Ajax
playing a Board Game
540-530 BCE
Archaic Style
Exekias, amphora
Achilles and
Penthesilea
525 BCE
Archaic Period
Euphronios
(painter) and
Euxsitheos
(potter),
Death of
Sarpedon
during the
Trojan War,
c. 515 BCE,
From an
Italian grave.
Detail of the Death of Sarpedon during
the Trojan War, c.500 BCE
Severe
or
Early Classical Style
(c.480 BCE)
Berlin Painter, bell
krater, showing the
.
Abduction of Europa
by Zeus
490 BCE
New Style, what
differences to you
see?
Penthesilea Painter, cup interior showing Achilles and
Penthesilea 455 BCE Late Archaic Classical
Death of the
Children of
Niobe, Niobid
Painter, c.
455-450 BCE
Classical
to
Late Classical
Style
(c. 450-350 BCE)
Reed Painter,
Warrior by a
Grave
( c.410 BCE)
Classical period
Hellenistic Period
(c.250 BCE)
Battle of Issus,
from the
House of the
Faun, Pompeii,
Also known as
“Alexander
Mosaic,” First
Century CE
Roman copy
from the
Hellenistic
period in
Greece
Alexander the Great
Persian King Darius, from…
Sculpture
Orientalizing Style:
Seventh Century BCE
Terrace of the Lions, Delos, Italy , 7th Century BCE
Sculpture, Archaic Style
c. 600-480 BCE
Note: Refer to your sculpture
hand out
New York Kouros
from Attica
(c. 600 BCE)
Archaic Sculpture period
Differences?
Similarities?
Peplos Kore
530 BCE)
Archaic period
Early Classical
Style Sculpture
c. 480-450 BCE
Classical Style
c. 450-400 BCE
The Kritios Boy,
from the Acropolis
480 BCE
Early Classical Style
Poseidon/Zeus, found
in the sea off Cape
Artemision 450 BCE)
Early Classical Period
Myron, Diskobolos,
(Disk Thrower),
460-450 BCE
Early Classical
Warrior from Riaci
(c. 450 BCE)
Early Classical Style
Polykleitos, Doryphoras
(Spear Bearer)
440 BCE)
Classical style
•c. 430 BCE)
Classical Style
Attributed
to
Polykleitos,
Wounded
Amazon, c.
430 BCE)
Classical
Style
Why is this
Attributed
to
Polykleitos?
Stele of Hegeso,
( c. 410-400 BCE)
Classical Style
The Development
Of
Ancient Greek Architecture
and
Architectural Sculpture
Archaic Style
c. 600-480 BCE
View of Apollo’s Temple at Corinth, (c. 500 BCE)
Archaic architecture, Early Doric
The Parthenon-
Temple of
Athena Nike
What are the two orders
Represented here?
Seated gods from the Ionic Frieze of the
Siphnian Treasury, 530-525 BCE
Archaic style, Ionic
Apollo with Lapith and Centaur, center
of the west Pediment of the temple of
Zeus at Olympia. 465-457 BCE
Handout
Two short films about the Parthenon
http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Arts/Parthen
on.htm
http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/galleri
es/ancient_greece_and_rome/room_18_greec
e_parthenon_scu.aspx
The Parthenon, Athens
Designed by architects Iktinos and Kallikrates in
448 BCE. Phidias, supervised the sculptures.
448-432 BCE, Classical Style, Doric Order
Lapith and
Centaur, from the
south metope
XXVII of the
Parthenon,
432 BCE
Classical Period
Equestrian Group from the north Ionic frieze of the
Parthenon, c. 442-439 BCE, Classical style
Temple of Athena Nike from the east, Acropolis, Athens
Temple of Athena Nike
from the east,
Acropolis, Athens,
427-242 BCE
Classical Style
Ionic Order
Nike Adjusting Her
Sandal, from the
balustrade of the temple
of Athena Nike,
Acropolis
410-409 BCE,
Classical period
The caryatid porch of the Erechtheum, south
side, Acropolis, Greece , 421-405 BCE,
Classical Period, Doric Order
Theatre at Epidauros, (c. 350 BCE)
Late Classical Style
Late Classical Style Sculpture
4th Century BCE
Praxiteles, Aphrodite of
Knido,
(c. 350 BCE)
Late Classical Style Sculpture
Lysippos, Apoxyomenos
(Athlete with a Strigil),
A Roman copy of the bronze
original,
c. 320 BCE
Hellenistic Style
Attic Grave Stele,
from near Athens.
(c. 650-660 BCE)
Late Classical period
Hellenistic
Sculpture
(323-31 BCE)
Winged Nike (Winged
Victory) From
Samothrace,
(c. 190 BCE)
Hellenistic period
Aphrodite at Melos (also called
Venus de Milo),
(c. 150-125 BCE)
Hellenistic Style
Revival style of the sensual female
from Praxiteles during the
Classical Period
Boxer,
Late 2nd to early 1st
Century
Hellenistic Period
Laocoön and His Two
Sons,
1st century CE
Laocoön and his son.
Roman copy of a
Hellenistic statue adds
a son on the left,
Great Altar of Zeus,
west front reconstructed and
restored, from Pergamon,
180 BCE, Hellenistic
Athena Battling with Alkyoneus, from the great frieze of the
Pergamon altar, East Section, c. 180 BCE, Hellenistic period
Summary of Greek Style Techniques:
Vase painting
Geometric (c. 100-700 BCE)
Orientalizing (c. 700-600 BCE)
Black-Figure (c. 600-480 BCE)
Red-Figure (c. 530-400 BCE)
White-ground (begins c. 420 BCE)
Monumental Sculpture
Orientalizing (c. 700-600 BCE)
Archaic (c. 600-480 BCE)
Early Classical (c. 480-450 BCE)
High Classical (c. 450-400 BCE)
Late Classical (c. 400-323 BCE)
Hellenistic (c. 323-31 BCE)