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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.]

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PERISTYLE

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Columns arranged around the entire perimeter.

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STYLOBATE

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Present in both doric and ionic.

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Hermes Bearing the Infant Dionysus

Praxitiles

Demonstrates contrapposto, open composition

CLASSICAL GREECE (480 – 323 BCE)

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Doryphoros (Spear Bearer)

Artist: Polykleitos

Demonstrates contrapposto

High classical

CLASSICAL GREECE (480 – 323 BCE)

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Kritios Boy

Artist: Kritios

First example of contrapposto

Acropolys

CLASSICAL GREECE (480 – 323 BCE)

Early classical

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Apoxyomenos (Scraper)

Artist: Lysippos

bronze

momentary

Late classical

CLASSICAL GREECE (480 – 323 BCE)

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Lysippos

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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.

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Strigil

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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.

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Praxiteles

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Open composition

S-curve

hermes bearing infant dionysus

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Attributes of late classicism

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  1. New, more slender proportions
  2. Breaking out of single viewing planes
  3. Exploring more emotion and sensuality
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Hellenistic Period

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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.

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Sleeping Satyr (Barberini Faun)

Satyr - follower of god of wine (Dionysus/Bacchus), part goat

Hellenistic 320-30BCE

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Bacchus - Michelangelo

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Naked vs. Nude

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Psychological differentiation

Naked - vulnerable/uncomfortable without clothing

Nude - comfortable without clothing

Argued by art historian, Kenneth Clark (1956)

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Laocoön and His Sons

Artists: Athanadoros,Hagesandros, and Polydoros of Rhodes

Shows story of trojan priest who was strangled by sea serpents at its most dramatic moment.

Michelangelo was present when this was unearthed

Hellenistic

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Nike of Samothrace

Originally a fountain - creates auditory drama

Samothrace, Greece

Hellenistic 320-30BCE

(Nike alighting on a warship)

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Phidian style drapery

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The Old Market Woman

Hellenistic 320-30BCE

4 Ft tall

Marble

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Altar of Zeus

Ionic columns

Hellenistic

Origionally from Pergamon, Turkey

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Athena Battling Alkyoneos

At altar of Zeus

Gigantomachy - a battle between gods and giants in Greek mythology.

Hellenistic

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Diskobolos

Artist: Myron
Bronze

Classical Greece (480-323BCE)

(Discus Thrower)

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High Classical

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  • Demonstrates athleticism through musculature, movement
  • Idealized
  • Expressionless
  • Harmonious, rational proportions
  • Meant to be viewed from a single viewing point
  • No interaction with viewer
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Periods within Greek

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Early Classicism
High Classicism
Late Classicism
Hellenistic

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Dying Gallic

Artist: Epigonos(?)
Material: bronze

Hellenistic

  • Height of drama - he is dying
  • Ethnic markers - hair, mustache, neck tie
  • Dying on sheild
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Gallic Chieftain Killing His Wife and Himself

Artist: Epigonos (?)
material: bronze

Pergamon, Turkey

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DEFEATED BOXER

Hellenistic

The Slide list calls this this SEATED Boxer

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The major differences between the Doric and Ionic orders…

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are the form of the capitals and the treatment of the frieze. The Doric frieze is divided into triglyphs and metopes.

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Plan of a typical Greek peripteral temple

30
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Riace Warrior

hollow cast bronze

contrapposto

CLASSICAL GREECE (480 – 323 BCE)

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Parthenon
Iktinos and Kallikrates
Acropolis, Athens, Greece

CLASSICAL GREECE (480 – 323 BCE)

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Doric Order

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Ionic order

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Athena Parthenos

Workshop of Phidias
in the cella of the Parthenon
Acropolis, Athens, Greece

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Three goddesses

Workshop of Phidias
from a pediment of the Parthenon
Acropolis, Athens, Greece

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hypaethral

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open to the sky / no roof

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