1. Gardner’s Art Through the Ages, 12e
Chapter 5
Gods, Heroes, and Athletes:
The Art of Ancient Greece pp

2. Summary
Geometric statues & vases: Strong Asian influence, stylized with geometric patterns.
Archaic Sculpture: Starts with, but moves away from Egyptian influence.
Temples: Influenced by near east. Move from the simple Cretan megaron, through Doric to Ionic. .
Doric Ionic
Severely plain Highly ornamental
Echinus convex Echinus small and supports
and cushionlike bolster ending in scroll-like spirals
Frieze subdivided into Frieze left open to provide triglyphs and metopes continuous field for relief sculptures
Massive in appearance Light and airy in appearance

3. The Greek World

4. TOPICS Archaic Pottery: Red-figure painting
Aegina & Transition to Classical Period:
Temple of Aphaia
Early & High Classical Period
Temple of Zeus, Corfu
Statuary: The Perfect Statue
The Athenian Acropolis:
Parthenon
Propylaia
Erechtheion
Temple of Nike
Late Classical
Hellentistic

5. Vase Painting: Archaic Period
Kleitias & Ergotimos – Italy ca. 570 BCE
What kind of vase is this?

6. Vase Painting: Archaic Period
Exekias, Italy BCE
Ajax/Achilles playing a game of dice. [humanization]
What kind of vase is this?

7. Types of Vases

8. Greek Vase Painting Andokides: Ajax/Achilles. Italy ca. 525-520 BCE
“Bilingual” vase: This is the “black side”

9. Euphronios & Red Figure Vase Painting
What kind of vase?
With red, interior figures can be drawn with a soft brush instead of a stiff metal graver.
With red glaze, the glaze thickness could be varied, expanding the chromatic range.
Euphronios, Italy, ca.510 BCE
Figures begin to occupy space.

10. Euthymides
Three Revelers under the influence – appropriate for a wine jar
An experiment with unusual positions of the human body.
Uses foreshortening, dropping the composite view.

11. Red Figure Vase Painting
Example of a red-figure painting at the bottom of a Kylix. [a drinking cup]

12. Another Kylix example

13. Transition to Classical Period: Aphaia Temple
BCE

14. Transition to Classical Period: Aphaia Temple
West Pediment: The sculpture looks directly at the spectator and smiles despite pain, and the torso is rigidly frontal. There is no sense of a thinking or feeling human being.
East Pediment: The posture is more natural and complex, angled instead of frontal, and does not look directly at the spectator. The man reacts to his wound.