Unit 4 Slides

Classical Greece and It’s Aftermath

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The Art of Greece The Periods •The Cretan Period •The Mycenaean Age •Geometrical Period – The Middle Ages of Greece •Protogeometric •Geometric •The Archaic Period – The Age of Colonization •The Classical Period •Early Classical – The Persian Wars •Main Classical – The Age of Perikles •Late Classical – Democracy’s Crisis •The Hellenistic Period

2000-1400 BC 1600-1100 BC 1100-700 BC 1100-900 BC 900-700 BC 700-480 BC 480-330 BC 480-450 BC 450-400 BC 400-330 BC from 330 BC

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EARLY CLASSICAL OR TRANSITIONAL STYLE

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Lost-Wax Hollow-Casting: The Direct Method 1.Make a clay core in the basic shape of the object.

2.Cover the clay core with a layer of wax and mold the details of the object in the wax. 3.Paint the wax model with a layer of thin clay to pick up the details. Then cover the object with a coarser clay mantle. Attach the outer clay mantle to the inner clay core with iron or bronze chaplets. Slowly bake the clay mold so the wax melts out, then fire the mold to make it hard. 4.Fill the space left by the wax with molten bronze. Allow the bronze to cool, then break open the mold and remove the bronze object. Cut off the chaplet ends and funnels. Finally, polish the object to finish it.

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Charioteer from Delphi (c470 BC) cast bronze Athens, National Archaeological Museum

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Charioteer from Delphi (detail)

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Poseidon from Artemision (c460 BC) cast bronze Athens, National Archaeological Museum

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Poseidon from Artemision (detail)

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Magna Graecia, Paestum Temple of Poseidon (Temple of Hera II) view from SE ca. 460 B.C.

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The Statue of Zeus at Olympia Pheidias ca. 440 BC

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The Museum at Olympia Sculptures from the West Pediment of the Temple of Zeus 460 BC 11

The Museum at Olympia Sculptures from the West Pediment of the Temple of Zeus 460 BC

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The Museum at Olympia Apollo

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The Museum at Olympia Sculptures from the East Pediment of the Temple of Zeus 460 BC

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The Museum at Olympia Zeus

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The Museum at Olympia Left side, with Pelops, his horses, and reclining river god in corner

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CLASSICAL GREEK SCULPTURE

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Myron Discobolos (c450 BC) Roman marble copy after bronze original (Rome, National Museum)

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Polykleitos Doryphoros (The Canon, or Spear Carrier) marble c450 BC (Vatican Museums)

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Wounded Amazon, copies after originals known to have been created by Polykleitos and Phidias for competition won by Polykleitos in Ephesos (?)(left: Rome, Vatican Museums) (right: Metropolitan Museum, New York)

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Phidias, Parthenon sculptures (c448-432 BC)

Marble copy of Phidias's cult statue of Athena from the Parthenon

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Phidias, Parthenon sculptures (c448-432 BC) The "Three Goddesses" from the east pediment (London, British Museum) 22

Phidias, Parthenon sculptures (c448-432 BC) Metope relief from the Parthenon showing a Lapith fighting a Centaur 23

The Parthenon, Athens (448-432 BC) Iktinos and Kallikrates, architects

The Golden Mean

Acropolis

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View of south side of Acropolis with Odeion of Herodes Atticus

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View of Propylaia and Parthenon from the Areopagus 26

reconstructed view 27

East Front 28

The Doric frieze with Lapiths and Centaurs 29

The West Pediment, north gable 30

The West Pediment, south gable

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The Erechtheion

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The Erechtheion Porch of Maidens 33

Caryatids from the Porch of the Maidens, Erechtheion, Acropolis, Athens

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The Theater of Dionysos, on the south slopes of the Acropolis (5th century BC)

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LATE CLASSICAL SCULPTURE

Attributed to Praxiteles, Hermes with the Infant Dionysos at Olympia (c340 BC) marble copy(?) after marble or bronze original 36

Attributed to Euphranor, Bronze figure (Paris?) found at Antikythera (Athens, National Museum, c340 BC)

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Apoxyomenos ("The Scraper") Roman marble copy after c330 bronze original (Rome, Vatican Museums)

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Hellenistic Greek Sculpture

Dying Gaul from Monument to Attalos II, Pergamon (Roman marble copy after c240 bronze, Rome, Capitoline Museum) 39

Agesander, Athanodorus and Polydoros, The Laocöon Group (Rome, Vatican Museums)

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Venus de Milo Parian marble, h 2.02 m (6 1/2 ft) Found at Melos (the Cyclades islands) 130-120 BC Musee du Louvre, Paris

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Nike of Samothrace, 240-190 BC (Paris, Louvre)

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Old Market woman (New York, Metropolitan Museum)

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Apollonios, Seated Boxer (Rome, Museo delle Terme)

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red figure kylix, 5th century BC: over-shoulder throw

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