Chapter Two- Part 2Greece –Mycenaean, Archaic Period

Prepared by Kelly Donahue-Wallace

Randal WallaceUniversity of North Texas

Gardner's Art through the Ages, Concise Edition by Fred Kleiner

Prehistoric Aegean: Mycenaean Dates and Places: • 1700-1200BCE• Peloponnesos

(Mainland Greece)

People:• Kings and warriors• Prosperous• Ancestors of the Greeks

Funerary mask, ca. 1600-1500BCE. Fig. 2-13

Prehistoric Aegean: Mycenaean

Lion Gate, Mycenae, ca. 1300-1250BCE. Fig. 2-10.

Prehistoric Aegean: Mycenaean Example: • Citadel built of

Cyclopean masonry• Corbeled arch • Relief sculpture on

relieving triangle• Inside: tholos with

dome housing funerary goods

Lion Gate, Mycenae, ca. 1300-1250BCE. Fig. 2-10.

Greek ArtDates and Places: • 900-30BCE• Greek mainland and

nearby outposts• Inside: tholos with dome

housing funerary goodsPeople:• Democratic city-states• Human-centered• Poetry, philosophy,

Olympic games • Worship of gods Kritios Boy, ca. 480BCE. Fig. 2-31.

Greek ArtThemes:• Humans• Mythology• Trojan WarForms:• Conceptual→Optical• Doric, Ionic and Corinthian

orders• Mathematical proportion

Restored façade of the Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, ca. 500-490BCE. Fig. 2-28

Greek: Geometric and Archaic

Geometric krater, ca. 740BCE. Fig. 2-14.

Greek: Geometric and ArchaicExample:• Abstracted human

figure• Storytelling • Registers of meander

patterns• Two-dimensional • Grave marker Geometric krater, ca. 740BCE. Fig. 2-

14.

Greek: Geometric and Archaic

Kroisos, ca. 530BCE. Fig. 2-17 and Peplos Kore, 530BCE. Fig. 2-18.

Greek: Geometric and ArchaicExample:• Archaic kouros

(female version is kore)

• Egyptian pose but with motion

• Nude hero• Archaic smile and

paint to look lifelike Kroisos, ca. 530BCE. Fig. 2-17.

Greek: Geometric and Archaic

Temple of Hera, ca. 550BCE. Fig. 2-21.

Greek: Geometric and ArchaicExample:• Doric temple• Mathematical order and

proportion• Peripteral colonnade,

entablature, pediment• Cult statue and

pediment frieze reliefs

Temple of Hera, ca. 550BCE. Fig. 2-21.

Greek: Geometric and Archaic

Euthymides, Three Revelers, ca. 510BCE. Fig. 2-26.

Greek: Geometric and ArchaicExample:• Red-figure vase painting• Signed by artist• Narrative with varied

poses• Red-figure painting

allows for more detail• Foreshortening

Euthymides, Three Revelers, ca. 510BCE. Fig. 2-26.