Classical Greek

Classical Greek

1. Geometric

   • Dipylon Krater
     • Pilons - large trapezoidic blocks 5 ft. in height Used as grave stone Drain on bottom Registers- horizontal bands Horror vacui High handles for men, low for women Meander- backwards S shape
     • 700s

2. Orientalizing

   • Corinthian Black Figure Amphor with Animal Frieze
     • Wine Storage Amphora Over-painting- not glazed (not bonded with surface of jar) Animals have naturalistic poses
     • 600s

3. Archaic

   • Ajax and Achilles Playing at Dice
     • Contains inscriptions that identify figures First story-telling vase Name featured on art (Exekias) Black slip on red clay No- Horror vacui
     • 500s
   • Three Revelers
     • Red figure vase  Three drunk men walking First seen example of foreshortening Unusual views (3/4 and rear view)
     • 500s
   • Kouros
     • Contrapasto pose to show walking Quadrifacial- has four sides Polychromy
     • 600s
   • Peplos Kore
     • Hair, eyes, lips and clothes are tinted pink (Polychromy)   Encaustic painting Female
     • 500s
   • Kroisos
     • Buffer Kouros  Muscles are fuller from the back Legs display bent motion Archaic smile  Polychromy seen in hair
     • 500s
   • Temple of Hera I
     • "The Basillica" Doric Style 9x16 columns Echinus discs look flattened by weight No logical place for cult image
     • 500s
   • West Pediment Sculpture (Aphaia Temple)
     • Dying warrior trying to pull arrow from chest Archaic smile Adjustment of poses
     • 400s

4. Transitional

   • Kritios Boy
     • Weight shift- contrapposto  Idealism Better depiction of walking No smile because he already seems lifelike
     • 400s
   • Temple of Aphaia
     • Doric Temple 6x12 for columns Taller than Hera I columns Entasis- columns bulge in middle Colloidal Echinus discs Columns superimposed    - illusionary
     • 500-400
   • East Pediment Sculpture
     • Development of weight shift Figure clasping shield No smile
     • 500s
   • Zeus/ Poseidon
     • Meant to either hold a trident or thunderbolt Bronze casting  Free standing 
     • 400s
   • Doryphorous
     • Polykleitos Soear is missing Made using ratios for easy repetition of ideal proportions Originally cast in Bronze Contrappasto 
     • 400s
   • The Parthenon Sculpture
     • Frieze- continuously wrapped sculpture Engaged columns Gods shown reclining Gods look like big Athenians
     • Women shown frontally  1. Love of goddesses 2. Ideal female figure 3. Marketing
     • 400s

5. 5th Century Athens

   • Temple of Athena Nike
     • Kallikrates Small votive to Athena Originally had a railing Doesn't have porch on all sides Amphiprotic style Ionic
     • 400s
   • Grave Stele of Hegeso
     • Hegeso- daughter of Proxinos Under 16 when she died Holding a box, examining her dowry
     • 400s

6. Late Classical

   • Choragic Monument of Lysikrates
     • Over-pompous trophy showing Corintian style 
     • 300s
   • Hermes w/ Infant Dionysus
     • Praxiteles Originally dangling grapes in front of him Shows shift from rigid to softness Worked in marble
     • 300s
   • Aphrodite of Knidos
     • Praxiteles Preparing to bathe One of the first full female nude sculptures
     • 300s
   • Head of a Woman from Chios
     • Thought to be Praxiteles original Sense that the figure is looking through a veil Lips are slightly parted
     • 300s
   • Apoxymenos (Scraper)
     • Lysippos May have been a public sign Fig leaf over privates Move towards lither figures Illusions of movement
     • 300s