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ANCIENT GREECE -
HELLENISTIC

2. Hellenistic artists shifted focus to the individual and the specific
Hellenistic artists shifted focus to the individual and the specific. They turned increasingly away from the heroic to the everyday, from gods to mortals, from aloof serenity to individual emotion, and from drama to emotional melodrama.

3. Their works appeal to the senses through luscious surface treatments and to our hearts as well as our intellects through expressive subjects and poses.
Although such tendencies are already evident during the fourth century BCE, they became more pronounced in Hellenistic art.

4. Altar of Zeus, Pergamon

5. https://www. khanacademy
9 min.
Class quiz

6. Athena battling Alkyoneos, Altar of Zeus
gigantomachy
Parthenon
Athena
Siphnian Treasury at Delphi

7. Nike alighting on a warship
(Nike of Samothrace)

8. The forward momentum of the Nike’s heavy body is balanced by the powerful backward thrust of her enormous wings.
9 feet high
The large, open movements of the figure, the strong contrasts of light and dark on the deeply sculpted forms, and the contrasting textures of feathers, fabric, and skin, typify the finest Hellenistic art.

9. Messenger Goddess of Victory.
Stood on the prow of a stone ship at a temple environment on the island of Samothrace.

10. Review: Classical Order/Vocabulary
11 min