The Archaic Period
620 to 490/80 BCE
Temple Architecture – use book
1. stylobate
2. fluting
3. capital
4. volute
5. Doric order
6. Ionic order
7. pediment
8. frieze
9. peripteral
10.naos/cella
PERIPTERAL TEMPLE
Temple of Hera I, Paestum, Italy
550 BCE
Architectural Sculpture
• High relief: 3-D image or design whose flat
background surface is carved away to a high depth.
• Caryatids: columns carved in the form of draped
women.
WEST
PEDIMENT
500-490
Dying Warrior, Doric Temple of Aphaia at Aegina
480 BCE, Marble
Cleverly designed to hit in the corner of the pediment.
WEST
PEDIMENT
480 BCE
500-490
500 BCE
Freestanding Sculpture
• Lifesize or larger, these sculptures
would be standing or in stride with one
foot in front of the other.
• Brightly painted (even though we can’t
see it anymore)
• Kore: female statue
• Kouros: male statue
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Standing Kouros
580 BCE, Marble
Echoes Egypt
Hair is patterned with
consistent knots. STYLIZED
Archaic smile
Rigid
Striding
Idealized
• Kroisos Kouros
• Cemetery at
Anavysos,
Athens
• 530 BCE, Marble
• Powerful, round
body
• A continual
interest in
artist’s rendering
the human body
with more detail
• Stride, arms,
fists, hair, and
archaic smile
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Peplos Kore
Acropolis, Athens
530 BCE, Marble
peplos: garment,
draped rectangular
cloth
• Motionless, vertical,
stylized hair
• fluting
• Kore (from Chios?)
• 520 BCE, Marble
• Rich drapery, softer
features, and lifelike anatomy
• Chiton: like a
peplos, but fuller of
ornate detail
• Calf Bearer
• Acropolis,
Athens 560 BCE
• Archaic smile,
tufted hair, wideopen eyes
• “X” composition
Archaic Vase Painting
During the Archaic period, Athens =
center for manufacture and trade for
pottery.
Athens adopted the Corinthian blackfigure style.
EXEKIAS,
Achilles and
Ajax playing a
dice game
(detail from an
Attic blackfigure
amphora),
from Vulci,
Italy, ca. 540530 BCE
• Hierarchal sizing, exquisite contour detailing
and composition
• Sgraffito linework (incision)
• Suicide of Ajax, 540
BCE black-figure on
amphora,
• Painter Exekias
• Considered the finest of
Athenian vase painters,
took subjects from
Greek history
EUPHRONIOS,
Herakles
wrestling
Antaios (detail
of an Attic redfigure calyx
krater), from
Cerveteri, Italy,
ca. 510 BCE
• Euphronios interested in depicting human figure as it is
seen taking up real space, very different from what we
have seen thus far.
• Twisted composition helps with struggle and motion of
figures
• Death of Sarpedon, red-figure on calyx krater, painted by
Euphronios. Balance
• Balance between vertical and horizontal lines.
• P______
Peplos K____
Kore (530 BCE) references a
c________
column with rigidity and linearity.
Peripteral is a temple that a single row of
• P_________
columns around it’s perimeter.
stylobate aka the top
• Columns rest on a s__________,
step of a temple.
cella is the central room in
naos
• The n______,
or c______,
a Greek temple.
pediment is the triangular top section on the
• A p________
e______
west side of a temple.
east and w______
Exekias painted both A_______
Achilles and A_____
Ajax
• E________
Dice G______
Game AND the
Playing a D_____
Suicide of Ajax. Both are examples of Greek
S________
black f_______
figure p________
painting vases.
b_______
kouros is a standing nude male statue
• K______
kore is a draped female statue
• K_____
Euphronios is a red–figure vessel painter
• E__________
Exekias
who was the student of E_______.
Calf
Bearer is depicted with the
• The C_____-B_______
Archaic s_____
smile
iconic A_______
chiton is a flowing, draped female clothe.
• A ch______