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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