Greek Art Through the Ages: From Homeric to Hellenistic Periods

Ancient Greek Art

Periods • Homeric period – 12 – 8 c. BCE • Archaic period – 7 – 6 c. BCE • Pre-Classic period – 490 – 440 BCE • Classic period - 440 – 323 BCE • Hellenistic period – 323 – 1 BCE • Each period is divided into early, middle and late stage.

Monumental sculpture (Lions gate), funeral art, and small stylized wooden sculptures of gods and heroes Homeric period

Archaic period • Kouros – male, nude, frontal, symmetric • Kora – female, dressed, painted, frontal, symmetric • Muscular • Always smile • 2 schools – Doric and Ionian.

Classic period - Myron

Polykleitos - Doryphoros • Javelin thrower • Worked in Argos • Wrote “Canon”, describing the proportions of human body

Peonius - Nike • Masters the motion through the arrangement of clothes

Skopas - Hercules

Phideas - Zeus

Phideas – Battle of Centurions

Praxiteles – Aphrodite of Knidos

Greek Art Through the Ages: From Homeric to Hellenistic Periods

Greek Art Through the Ages: From Homeric to Hellenistic Periods

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