Orientalizing Period

Question 1

Orientalizing Period, GENERAL

Answer 1

• the innovations introduced : everything reappears after Dark Age
• name - from “Orient”:
• modern term (scholars realized the period was important);
• art - lots of Eastern Influences;
• lots of elements become standardized, codified (once introduced they become necessary, desirable)
• UNKNOWN how they got to Greece, probably - trading:
  
  • probably, artists came - nothing is known about these artists

Question 2

Orientalizing Period, SCULPTURE - overview

Answer 2

• elements of Eastern Art ⇒ Greeks art (e.g. mythological creatures, orientalizing animals):
  
  • ​by Archaic Period, these elements - part of Greek artistic vocabulary

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• HUMAN figures:
  
  • ​scale:
    
    • ​small; late O.p. - larger (also on buildings - a_rchitectural sculpture_; first attempt to decorate buildings - with terracotta plaques);
  • material:
    
    • ​terracotta = fired clay >> they were used, e.g. as votive offerings;
    • or wood:
    • NOT bronze - too heavy for the life sized figures; expensive; takes too long;
  • more common - on vases : by the end of O.p. they realized that plate - surface - canvas for narratives;
  • use:
    
    • ​public;
    • privet - only vases;
  • ​purpose:
    
    • ​commemorative;
    • funeraly;
    • ritual : image of Gods or Goddesses who could stand in a temple; little offerings - once they were offered they became public.

Question 3

Orientalizing Period, ARCHITECTURE - overview

Answer 3

• The ongoing process of buildings in stone.
• There is no real impetus for the wide spread stone architecture:

As soon as architects discovered how to do it, everything was made in this fashion, it was exploding.

Question 4

Orientalizing Period, POLITICS & RELIGION

Answer 4

• cities & citizens - self-characterization through the association with certain gods (according to city’s goals) ≥≥ awarenes of the others

​>> public places to commemorate Gods;

• People became rich; cities grew >> more money for art >> jobs for lots of artist. I_t continues into the Archaic period._

Question 5

Orientalizing Period, POLITICS - POLIS

Answer 5

• Greek city state;
• a major or central patrolling city and all the lands (and people inhabiting them) it controls:

​coloies in Asian Minor and Magna Grecia- aslo concidered as polisei

• each - self-governingt;
• unknown how they came to be:

​- mb, absorbtion of people into 1 group;

• mb, they moved seeking for the job in a bigger citites;

>> there was some need for the unity.

The independent areas remained to be pretty ethnographic, like they are together because of their common ethnicity.