Greek Flashcards
Temple of Hera I
(Paestum, Italy)
demonstrates Post and Lintel
[Note: This temple comes from the Archaic Period, which precedes the Classical Period. As such, it demonstrates the change in architectural style and highlights the important features and innovations achieved in the Parthenon. You are not responsible for knowing the Archaic Period on your exam, but you should know how the Temple of Hera I differs from later Greek architecture.]
PERISTYLE
Columns arranged around the entire perimeter.
STYLOBATE
Present in both doric and ionic.
Hermes Bearing the Infant Dionysus
Praxitiles
Demonstrates contrapposto, open composition
CLASSICAL GREECE (480 – 323 BCE)
Doryphoros (Spear Bearer)
Artist: Polykleitos
Demonstrates contrapposto
High classical
CLASSICAL GREECE (480 – 323 BCE)
Kritios Boy
Artist: Kritios
First example of contrapposto
Acropolys
CLASSICAL GREECE (480 – 323 BCE)
Early classical
Apoxyomenos (Scraper)
Artist: Lysippos
bronze
momentary
Late classical
CLASSICAL GREECE (480 – 323 BCE)
Lysippos
Broke away from two dimensionsl viewing point. Created sculpture that is appreciated from all directions.
Viewed nature as his model.
Preferred portrait artist of Alexander the Great.
Strigil
Athletes would cover their bodies in oil. A strigil is the scraping device that they would use to scrape the oil and dirt from their bodies.
Praxiteles
Open composition
S-curve
hermes bearing infant dionysus
Attributes of late classicism
- New, more slender proportions
- Breaking out of single viewing planes
- Exploring more emotion and sensuality
Hellenistic Period
320-30BCE
-Between the death of Macedonian king Alexander the Great and the emergence of ancient Rome, ends with fall of Egypt
Art is especially dramatic and sensual - like baroque.
Draws in viewer in a physical sense.
Full sensory experience.
Phidian style drapery, deep undercutting, frozen moments within movement.
Sleeping Satyr (Barberini Faun)
Satyr - follower of god of wine (Dionysus/Bacchus), part goat
Hellenistic 320-30BCE
Bacchus - Michelangelo
Naked vs. Nude
Psychological differentiation
Naked - vulnerable/uncomfortable without clothing
Nude - comfortable without clothing
Argued by art historian, Kenneth Clark (1956)