Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Classical Greek
- Geometric
- Dipylon Krater
Anmerkungen:
- Pilons - large trapezoidic blocks
5 ft. in height
Used as grave stone
Drain on bottom
Registers- horizontal bands
Horror vacui
High handles for men, low for women
Meander- backwards S shape
- 700s
- Orientalizing
- Corinthian Black Figure Amphor with Animal Frieze
Anmerkungen:
- Wine Storage Amphora
Over-painting- not glazed (not bonded with surface of jar)
Animals have naturalistic poses
- 600s
- Archaic
- Ajax and Achilles Playing at Dice
Anmerkungen:
- Contains inscriptions that identify figures
First story-telling vase
Name featured on art (Exekias)
Black slip on red clay
No- Horror vacui
- 500s
- Three Revelers
Anmerkungen:
- Red figure vase
Three drunk men walking
First seen example of foreshortening
Unusual views (3/4 and rear view)
- 500s
- Kouros
Anmerkungen:
- Contrapasto pose to show walking
Quadrifacial- has four sides
Polychromy
- 600s
- Peplos Kore
Anmerkungen:
- Hair, eyes, lips and clothes are tinted pink (Polychromy) Encaustic painting
Female
- 500s
- Kroisos
Anmerkungen:
- Buffer Kouros
Muscles are fuller from the back
Legs display bent motion
Archaic smile
Polychromy seen in hair
- 500s
- Temple of Hera I
Anmerkungen:
- "The Basillica"
Doric Style
9x16 columns
Echinus discs look flattened by weight
No logical place for cult image
- 500s
- West Pediment Sculpture (Aphaia Temple)
Anmerkungen:
- Dying warrior trying to pull arrow from chest
Archaic smile
Adjustment of poses
- 400s
- Transitional
- Kritios Boy
Anmerkungen:
- Weight shift- contrapposto
Idealism
Better depiction of walking
No smile because he already seems lifelike
- 400s
- Temple of Aphaia
Anmerkungen:
- Doric Temple
6x12 for columns
Taller than Hera I columns
Entasis- columns bulge in middle
Colloidal Echinus discs
Columns superimposed
- illusionary
- 500-400
- East Pediment Sculpture
Anmerkungen:
- Development of weight shift
Figure clasping shield
No smile
- 500s
- Zeus/ Poseidon
Anmerkungen:
- Meant to either hold a trident or thunderbolt
Bronze casting
Free standing
- 400s
- Doryphorous
Anmerkungen:
- Polykleitos
Soear is missing
Made using ratios for easy repetition of ideal proportions
Originally cast in Bronze
Contrappasto
- 400s
- The Parthenon Sculpture
Anmerkungen:
- Frieze- continuously wrapped sculpture
Engaged columns
Gods shown reclining
Gods look like big Athenians
- Women shown frontally
1. Love of goddesses
2. Ideal female figure
3. Marketing
- 400s
- 5th Century Athens
- Temple of Athena Nike
Anmerkungen:
- Kallikrates
Small votive to Athena
Originally had a railing
Doesn't have porch on all sides
Amphiprotic style
Ionic
- 400s
- Grave Stele of Hegeso
Anmerkungen:
- Hegeso- daughter of Proxinos
Under 16 when she died
Holding a box, examining her dowry
- 400s
- Late
Classical
- Choragic Monument of Lysikrates
Anmerkungen:
- Over-pompous trophy showing Corintian style
- 300s
- Hermes w/ Infant Dionysus
Anmerkungen:
- Praxiteles
Originally dangling grapes in front of him
Shows shift from rigid to softness
Worked in marble
- 300s
- Aphrodite of Knidos
Anmerkungen:
- Praxiteles
Preparing to bathe
One of the first full female nude sculptures
- 300s
- Head of a Woman from Chios
Anmerkungen:
- Thought to be Praxiteles original
Sense that the figure is looking through a veil
Lips are slightly parted
- 300s
- Apoxymenos (Scraper)
Anmerkungen:
- Lysippos
May have been a public sign
Fig leaf over privates
Move towards lither figures
Illusions of movement
- 300s