Classical Greek (460-410 BCE)

Question 1

Niobides Krater IDs

Answer 1

Classical Greek
Niobid Painter (anonymous)
460-450 BCE
Clay (red-figure technique)

Question 2

Niobides Krater

Answer 2

Mouth is wide for ladle
Used for diluting wine
Used at Symposium for men (and their female entertainers) to build relationships
Ground lines and poses
Subjects interact with landscape
Slaughter of the Niobids (Apollo and Artemis killing Niobe’s kids after she made fun of their mom)
Red figure painting (black background, painted red, allows for greater naturalism)
NOT black figure painting (red background, incised black figures, reserved for special purposes)
Found in Etruscan tomb

Question 3

Doryphoros ID

Answer 3

Polykleitos
450-440 BCE
Marble

Question 4

Doryphoros

Answer 4

Severe style face (ideal male, not singular person)
Contrapasto
Chiastic (body in relationship with itself: one arm/leg at rest, other arm/leg in action)
NOT a portrait!
Symbolic of the ideal male (beautiful, athletic, etc.)
In gardens and bath complexes in Rome
Roman copy of original Greek bronze (shift in aesthetics)
Support beam in back
Mathematic canon of proportions

Question 5

Acropolis IDs

Answer 5

Iktinos and Kallkrates
447-424 BCE
Marble

Question 6

Acropolis

Answer 6

Doric order with an Ionic frieze
Prostyle porch
Columns go all the way around
Optical illusions to make it seem like there are right angles
Pedimental sculptures (movement and drama in the reactions to Athena popping out of Zeus’s head, women’s bodies being shown)
Dedicated to Athena
Parthenon (Athena’s house)
Statues of Athena in all her forms (Polias, the femenine and peaceful, Parthenos, the virgin, Promachos, the battle-ready, and Nike, the victorious)
Cella with a cult statue of Athena
Treasury (funds for Delian League)
East pediment (Birth of Athena)
West pediment (Poseidon vs. Athena)
East metope (Gods vs. giants)
West metope (Gods vs. Amazons)
North metope (Greeks vs. Trojans)
South metope (Greeks vs. Centaurs)
Plaque of Ergastines (shows the panathenaic procession (cleaning of the ancient olive wood statue of Athena)
Temple of Athena Nike (ionic prostyle, continous frieze with battle scenes, and Nike fixing her sandal)
Highest point in Greece

Question 7

Grave stele of Hegeso IDs

Answer 7

Classical Greek
Kallimachos
410 BCE
Marble

Question 8

Grave stele of Hegeso

Answer 8

Relief sculpture
Slight movement
Drapery clothing is delicate
Gravestone
Woman being attended to by her maid
Daily life depiction
Solemn, quiet
Not touching floor
Return of private, non-government funded art
Return of funerary art
Female focus

Question 9

Classical Greek

Answer 9

Period of Greek artistic glory
Temples are perfected
Bodies are perfected
Golden era before major downfall