Hook Can Mickey Mouse Go Outside And Chase Hogs Artistic Period Cycladic Minoan Mycenaean Geometric Orientalizing Archaic Classical Hellenistic Prehistoric Aegean 3000 BCE – 1200 BCE Ancient Greece 900 BCE – 30 BCE

Aegean Egyptian Mesopotamian

Aegean

Development of city-states and the concept of democracy; continual war and fighting between city-states Concept of humanity as beautiful, intelligent, strong/athletic and purposeful Religion: gods and goddesses were humans, just immortal Athens is now the symbol of ancient Greek culture Artistic Conventions: stylistically they borrowed from the Egyptians and Near Eastern; social norms reflected in artwork (slavery and the oppression of women)

“Dark Ages” of Greek life: after the fall of Mycenaean civilizations; artistic skill, written language, understanding of building materials were lost Greeks broke out of the Dark Ages and began writing, building and making art again; establish Olympic Games Re-introduction of human figure to Greek Art: small bronze figurines, paintings on ceramics

Geometric krater from the Dipylon cemetery Greek Geometrica Vases; 740 BCE

7 Hero and centaur (Herakles and Nessos?), from Olympia,Greece, ca. 750–730 BCE. Bronze, 4 1/2” high.

BCE Transitional period from Geometric to Archaic Trade and colonization flourished which influenced artwork ( saw art from Egypt and Near East) Monumental sculpture begins again

9 Mantiklos Apollo, statuette of a youth dedicated by Mantiklos to Apollo, from Thebes, Greece, ca. 700– 680 BCE. Bronze, 8” high.

12 Kroisos, from Anavysos, Greece, ca. 530 BCE. Marble, 6’ 4” high.

Greek Archaic, Hera of Samos 570 BCE

Greek Temple Plans

Plan of a typical peripteral Greek temple. Peripteral Greek Temple

ARCHITRAVE STYLOBATE FRIEZE PEDIMENT RAKING CORNICE CORNICE STEREOBATE

METOPES TRIGLYPHS

Greek Archaic, Exekias (artist)- famous vase painter Achilles and Ajax at play

Greek Archaic, Andokides (painter), Achilles and Ajax playing dice (Attic bilingual amphora), c

Greek Classical Severe Style, Kritios Boy 480 BCE

Greek Classical Severe Style, Zeus or Poseidon BCE

Greek High Classical Polykleitos, Doryphorus 450 BCE

CONTRAPPOSTO Greek High Classical Riace Warrior BCE

Greek Classical. Iktinos and Kallikrates, The Parthenon, BCE, Sculptor: Phidias

METOPES TRIGLYPHS

Greek Archaic, Hera of Samos, ~570 BCE Compare treatment of drapery—Phidias’s wet drapery style on left, found in pediment on Parthenon

Historically : Peloponnesian War leaves Athenians defeated and plague stricken; Greece then attacked by Spartans (yes, Erik… Sparta) and Thebes and finally ruled by Alexander the Great, a Macedonian King, in 336 BCE. Chaos of political upheaval changes the Greek mindset and more focus on the individual Artistically: More spontaneity of movement & variety of posture Rejection of stability and balance in statues

38 LYSIPPOS, Apoxyomenos (Scraper). Roman marble copy of a bronze original of ca. 330 BCE, 6’ 9” high.

GNOSIS, Stag hunt, from Pella, Greece, ca. 300 BCE. Pebble mosaic, figural panel 10’ 2” high.

Seated Boxer, 50 BCE Old Market Woman, 2 nd Century BCE

Hagesandros, Athenodoros and Polydoros of Rhodes, Laocoon and his sons, BCE

Dying Gaul, Roman cop of a bronze original, BCE

44 EPIGONOS(?), Gallic chieftain killing himself and his wife. Roman marble copy of a bronze original of ca. 230– 220 BCE, 6’ 11” high.

45 Nike alighting on a warship (Nike of Samothrace), from Samothrace, Greece, ca. 190 BCE. Marble, figure 8’ 1” high.