Classical Greece and It’s Aftermath

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Classical Greece and It’s Aftermath

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The Art of GreeceThe Periods•The Cretan Period 2000-1400 BC•The Mycenaean Age 1600-1100 BC•Geometrical Period – The Middle Ages of Greece 1100-700 BC

•Protogeometric 1100-900 BC•Geometric 900-700 BC

•The Archaic Period – The Age of Colonization 700-480 BC•The Classical Period 480-330 BC

•Early Classical – The Persian Wars 480-450 BC•Main Classical – The Age of Perikles 450-400 BC•Late Classical – Democracy’s Crisis 400-330 BC

•The Hellenistic Period 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 bronzeAthens, 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 SEca. 460 B.C.

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The Statue of Zeus at OlympiaPheidias

ca. 440 BC

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The Museum at OlympiaSculptures from the West Pediment of the Temple of Zeus460 BC

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The Museum at OlympiaSculptures from the West Pediment of the Temple of Zeus460 BC

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The Museum at OlympiaApollo

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The Museum at OlympiaSculptures from the East Pediment of the Temple of Zeus460 BC

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The Museum at OlympiaZeus

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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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MyronDiscobolos (c450 BC)

Roman marble copy after bronze original (Rome,

National Museum)

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PolykleitosDoryphoros (The Canon, or Spear Carrier) marblec450 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)

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

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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

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reconstructed view

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East Front

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The Doric frieze with Lapiths and Centaurs

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The West Pediment, north gable

31The West Pediment, south gable

32The Erechtheion

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The ErechtheionPorch of Maidens

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

LATE CLASSICAL SCULPTURE

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

Hellenistic Greek Sculpture

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

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Venus de MiloParian marble, h 2.02 m (6 1/2 ft)

Found at Melos (the Cyclades islands) 130-120 BCMusee 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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