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Archaic and Early Classical Art

Religious Beliefs and Sacred Places

• Sancutary of Apollo, Dephi

• Panhellenic

• Delphi• Sanctuary• Panhellenic

Greek Architectural

Orders

• Doric Order (left)• Ionic Order (middle)• Corinthian Order

(right)• Capital, shaft, base

base

shaft

capital

base

• Platform=flat base on which the columns and walls rest

• Naos=main room of temple. Also called “cella”

• Peristyle=columns surrounding exterior

Greek Temple Plan

Archaic Architecture

• Temple of Aphaia, Aegina c 500 BCE

Reconstuction Drawing of the Temple of Aphaia, Aegina c. 500 BCE

Archaic Period

Temple of Aphaia at Aegina ca 500 BCE

West pediment

Archaic PeriodTemple of Aphaia at Aegina

pedimental sculpture

500-490 BCEWest

490-480 BCEEast

Archaic Period

• Standing Youth• (singular: Kouros;

plural: Kouroi)• Found in Africa• Metropolitan Museum

of Art [=Metrolpolitan Kouros]

• Ca. 600 BCE

• Metropolitan Kouros• Menkaure (Old

Kingdom Egypt)

Archaic PeriodAnavysos Kourosca. 530 BC (right)

Standing Youth Metropolitcan Kouros

ca. 600 BC (left)

Archaic Period

Peplos Koreca 530 BCE

• Peplos Kore (Ca. 530 BCE)• Berlin Kore (ca. 600 BCE)

• Peplos Kore (530 BCE)• Anavysos Koures

Pictorial Arts in Archaic Greece

Orientalizing

Geometric

Archaic painting

Archaic Period

Amasis Painter, Dionysos with MaenadsCa 540 BCE

Black figure technique

ExekiasAchilles and Ajax playing a Game ****Ca. 540 BCEBlack figure technique

ExekiasSuicide of AjaxCa. 540 BCE

• Red figure technique(introduced ca. 525 BCE)

Black figure technique

Archaic Period

Death of Sarpedon

EuphroniosCa. 515 BCE

480-450 Early Classical450-400 High Classical400-323 Late Classical

Classical Art480-323 BCE

• Persians invasions into Greece

– 490 BCE– 480 BCE

Athenian Hegemony• Delians League/Athenian League

Athens=Tony Soprano

Kritios Boy

From Acropolis, Athens

Ca. 480 BCE

Greek Original

Early classical

Charioteer from the Sanctuary of Apollo, DepphiCa. 470 BCEBronze

Early Classical Warrior

Riace, Italy460-450 BCE

Early ClassicalFrolicking satyrsCa. 480 BCEDouris

High Classical450-400 BCE• Polykleitos• Spear Bearer

(Doryphoros)

• The Canon• 450-440 BCE

symmetria

Roman copies