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Greek Art. Geometric, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic. Greek Philosophy. man is the measure of all things art glorified human form buildings meant to be pleasing to human eye balance, symmetry, proportion. Geometric Art.
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Greek Art • Geometric, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic
Greek Philosophy • man is the measure of all things • art glorified human form • buildings meant to be pleasing to human eye • balance, symmetry, proportion
Geometric Art Dipylon Master, Dipylon vase (Attic geometric amphora), from Dipylon cemetary, Athens 750 BC
Attic Geometric krater, from Dipylon cemetary, Athens 740 BC
Hero and centaur (Herakles and Nessos ?), 750-730 BC, bronze
Orientalizing Period • Mantiklos Apollo, from Thebes, 700-680 BC, bronze
Corinthian black figure amphora with animal friezes, from Rhodes, 625-600 BC
Lady of Auxerre, statue of goddess or kore, 650-625 BC, limestone
Archaic Period • Kouros, from Attica, 600 BC, marble
Temple Plan • Cella (housed statue) • Pronaos (porch before cella) • Opisthodomos (back porch) • colonnade
Design focus was symmetry, balance, proportion • geometric, numerical balance, clarity
Temple Plan of Temple of Artemis, at Corfu, limestone, 600-580 BC • Medusa on the pediment
Black-Figure Vase Painting • Kleitias and Ergotimos, Francois Vase, 570 BC
Red-Figure Vase Painting • Andokides Painter, Ajax and Achilles playing a game, 525-520 BC
Euphronios, Herakles wrestling Antaios, 510 BC http://images.google.com/url?q=http://www.hartzler.org/cc307/archaic/images/120.jpg&usg=AFQjCNEICDU7g7DxBseuwzLjGQYqlC-3-Q
Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, 500-490 BC • shows transition from archaic to classical period
Early and High Classical Period Temple of Hera II, Paestrum, 460 BC