Geometric period
What are some hallmarks of the Geometric period in ancient Greece?
-With the development of the Greek city-states came the construction of large temples and sanctuaries dedicated to patron deities, which signaled the rise of state religion.
-Each polis identified with its own legendary hero
End of the eighth century B.C.
What was the purpose of the vessel? Describe the type of decoration that borders the narrative scenes. What do the scenes depict?
-Monumental grave markers were introduced in the form of large vases, often decorated with funerary representations
-Widest portion of the vase, shows the prothesis, a ritual in ancient Greek funerary practice in which the deceased is laid out on a high b
Archaic Period
What are some hallmarks of the Archaic period?
-Abstract geometric patterning that was dominant between about 1050 and 700 B.C. is supplanted in the seventh century by a more naturalistic style reflecting significant influence from the Near East and Egypt.
-Trading stations in the Levant and the Nile
What was the original function of this vessel? Is this a more or less realistic depiction of human figures than on the Geometric krater?
-Fat body and small neck and foot
-Each Panathenaic amphora was made according to a standardized shape and capacity of one metretes (approximately 42 quarts), and was decorated in black-figure technique
-Principle decoration is always in the panels of the
What is a kouros? What was its original function? In what ways is it similar to Egyptian figural sculptures?
-Noble figure of a youth is one of the earliest freestanding marble statues from Attica, the region around Athens.
-Noble figure of a youth is one of the earliest freestanding marble statues from Attica, the region around Athens.
-Most kouroi were made in
Classical Period
Explain the importance of Athens during the Classical period (c. 479 BCE).
-Strong fleet, Athens gradually transformed the originally voluntary members of the League into subjects
-Treasury was moved from Delos to the Athenian Akropolis, the city had become a wealthy imperial power.
-Developed into the first democracy.
-All adul
Who was Polykleitos and for what achievement was he known?
-Polykleitos of Argos was particularly famous for formulating a system of proportions that achieved this artistic effect and allowed others to reproduce it
-His treatise, the Canon, is now lost, but one of his most important sculptural works, the Diadoume
How does this sculpture exemplify Polykleitos' Canon?
-Canon means "measure" or "rule"
-Exemplifying what he considered to be the perfectly harmonious and balanced proportions of the human body in the sculpted form.
-Polykleitos made the Doryphoros as a demonstration piece to accompany his treatise on the id
What is the Acropolis?
-(Greek: "city at the top")central, defensively oriented district in ancient Greek cities, located on the highest ground and containing the chief municipal and religious buildings
-Because the founding of a city was a religious act, the establishment of a
What was the primary function of the Parthenon? How did the architects achieve perfection? What are the architectural refinements in it?
-Chief temple of the Greek goddess Athena on the hill of the Acropolis at Athens, Greece
-Built in the mid-5th century bce and is generally considered to be the culmination of the development of the Doric order, the simplest of the three Classical Greek a
Cornice, pediment, entablature, capital and column.
-Greek architecture is called post-beam-triangle construction
-''Post'' refers to the columns; ''beam'' indicates the horizontal members, or architraves, that rest on the columns; and ''triangle'' denotes the triangular area, called a pediment.
-Vertical
What story is depicted in the sculpture on the east pediment of the Parthenon?
-Hellenistic Period
-Parthenon was the most important monument
-Treasury for new confederations in Greece
-Symbol of wealth, power, wisdom
-Dedicated to Goddess Athena, who was the Goddess of the city-states Athens
-Goddess of wisdom and war
-Pediment is
How does it conform stylistically to Classical period art?
-Both look so realistic
-Probably Dionisis with the head
-Even without the hands and heads which are often the most expressive part of the body and also the bodies are largely clothed the bodies still are expressive in terms of energy, responsiveness, and
What event marks the beginning of the Hellenistic period?
-Alexander the Great and his armies conquered much of the known world, creating an empire that stretched from Greece and Asia Minor through Egypt and the Persian empire in the Near East to India
-Unprecedented contact with cultures far and wide disseminat
What accounts for the broader range of subjects during the Hellenistic period?
-Hellenistic kingship remained the dominant political form in the Greek East for nearly three centuries following the death of Alexander the Great. Royal families lived in splendid palaces with elaborate banquet halls and sumptuously decorated rooms and g
In what way does this conform to the art of the Hellenistic period?
-Woman wears a thin elegant dress, thong sandals, and a crown of Dionysiac ivy leaves
-May be dressed for a festival and the birds and basket of fruit she carries might be offerings
-Garment has slipped off her shoulder, a detail often seen in representat