3rd Six Weeks Test Flashcards
Date of High Classical Period
450 BCE
Date of Hellenistic Period
330-31 BCE
Most important innovation in the human figure
Contrapposto
Kritios Boy
480 BCE
First example of a figure that stands
Represents an adolescents
Powerfully Built
Eyes would have created Natrualism
Charioteer
470 BCE
Bronze
Early Classical
Raice Warrior
470 BCE
Copper lips and nipples
Bronze
Natural motion in space
Zeus
460 BCE
God/Ideal
Contrapposto
Early Classical
447-438 BCE
Parthenon
Sculpture: Phidias
Founded: Pericles
Architects: Iktinos & Kallikrates
Doric Order
Polykletios
Wrote the treatise
“Canon of Polykletios”
(mathemmatical rules or laws for human sculpture)
Doryphoros- “The spear bearer”
450 BCE
High cassical Greek
Erechtheion
438 BCE
Porch of Maidens
Architectural design: Menesikles
Ionic Order
Hermes and Infant Sionysus
343 BCE
Praxiteles
Developed more extensive rules based on Canon of Polykletios
Roman Copy
Four major buildings on Acropolis
Parthenon
Erechtheion
Temple of Athena Nike
Propylaia
Propylaia
Entranceway to the Acropolis
Mnesikles
The parthenon interior
Centerpeice of the sculptural progrom
monumental statue of Athena
Gold
Located in main cella of the temple
38 ft tall
Phidias
Elgin Marbles
Temple of Athena Nike
Ionic
Earliest temple on the Acropolis
expression of the Athens’ ambition to be the leading Greek City state in the Peloponnese
The Erechtheion
421-406 BCE
most sacred site of the acropolis
Porch of maidens
Caryatids
(Greek columns shaped like women)
