Classical Greece and It’s Aftermath

1. Classical Greece and It’s Aftermath

2. The Art of Greece • The Periods • The Cretan Period 2000-1400 BC • The Mycenaean Age 1600-1100 BC • Geometrical Period – The Middle Ages of Greece 1100-700 BC • Protogeometric 1100-900 BC • Geometric 900-700 BC • The Archaic Period – The Age of Colonization 700-480 BC • The Classical Period 480-330 BC • Early Classical – The Persian Wars 480-450 BC • Main Classical – The Age of Perikles 450-400 BC • Late Classical – Democracy’s Crisis 400-330 BC • The Hellenistic Period from 330 BC

3. EARLY CLASSICAL OR TRANSITIONAL STYLE

4. Lost-Wax Hollow-Casting: The Direct Method

5. Charioteer from Delphi (c470 BC) cast bronzeAthens, National Archaeological Museum

6. Charioteer from Delphi (detail)

7. Poseidon from Artemision (c460 BC) cast bronze Athens, National Archaeological Museum

8. Poseidon from Artemision (detail)

9. Magna Graecia, PaestumTemple of Poseidon (Temple of Hera II)view from SEca. 460 B.C.

10. The Statue of Zeus at OlympiaPheidiasca. 440 BC

11. The Museum at Olympia Sculptures from the West Pediment of the Temple of Zeus 460 BC

12. The Museum at Olympia Sculptures from the West Pediment of the Temple of Zeus 460 BC

13. The Museum at Olympia Apollo

14. The Museum at Olympia Sculptures from the East Pediment of the Temple of Zeus 460 BC

15. The Museum at Olympia Zeus

16. The Museum at Olympia Left side, with Pelops, his horses, and reclining river god in corner

17. CLASSICAL GREEK SCULPTURE

18. Myron Discobolos (c450 BC) Roman marble copy after bronze original (Rome, National Museum)

19. Polykleitos Doryphoros (The Canon, or Spear Carrier) marble c450 BC (Vatican Museums)

20. Wounded Amazon, copies after originals known to have been created by Polykleitos and Phidias for competition won by Polykleitos in Ephesos (?)(left: Rome, Vatican Museums) (right: Metropolitan Museum, New York)

21. Phidias, Parthenon sculptures (c448-432 BC) Marble copy of Phidias's cult statue of Athena from the Parthenon

22. Phidias, Parthenon sculptures (c448-432 BC) The "Three Goddesses" from the east pediment (London, British Museum)

23. Phidias, Parthenon sculptures (c448-432 BC) Metope relief from the Parthenon showing a Lapith fighting a Centaur

24. The Parthenon, Athens (448-432 BC) Iktinos and Kallikrates, architects The Golden MeanAcropolis

25. View of south side of Acropolis with Odeion of Herodes Atticus

26. View of Propylaia and Parthenon from the Areopagus

27. reconstructed view

28. East Front

29. The Doric frieze with Lapiths and Centaurs

30. The West Pediment, north gable

31. The West Pediment, south gable

32. The Erechtheion

33. The Erechtheion Porch of Maidens

34. Caryatids from the Porch of the Maidens, Erechtheion, Acropolis, Athens

35. The Theater of Dionysos, on the south slopes of the Acropolis (5th century BC)

36. LATE CLASSICAL SCULPTURE Attributed to Praxiteles, Hermes with the Infant Dionysos at Olympia (c340 BC) marble copy(?) after marble or bronze original

37. Attributed to Euphranor, Bronze figure (Paris?) found at Antikythera (Athens, National Museum, c340 BC)

38. Apoxyomenos ("The Scraper") Roman marble copy after c330 bronze original (Rome, Vatican Museums)

39. Hellenistic Greek Sculpture Dying Gaul from Monument to Attalos II, Pergamon (Roman marble copy after c240 bronze, Rome, Capitoline Museum)

40. Agesander, Athanodorus and Polydoros, The Laocöon Group (Rome, Vatican Museums)

41. Venus de MiloParian marble, h 2.02 m (6 1/2 ft)Found at Melos (the Cyclades islands)130-120 BCMusee du Louvre, Paris

42. Nike of Samothrace, 240-190 BC (Paris, Louvre)

43. Old Market woman (New York, Metropolitan Museum)

44. Apollonios, Seated Boxer (Rome, Museo delle Terme)

49. red figure kylix, 5th century BC: over-shoulder throw