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Left: Attic drinking cup showing the black figure style, c.480 BCE;Below: Attic mixing bowl done in the newer red figure style, replicas
Red figure ware showing an Athenian cobbler (shoemaker) at work
A perfume shop.
A sculptor’s shop showing the forge on the left for smelting bronze and an unfinished statue on the right waiting for a head.
Calyx-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), ca. 515 B.C.; Archaic; red-figure
Signed by Euxitheos, as potter; Signed by Euphronios, as painterGreek, Attic
Oedipus and the Sphinxcirca 440/430 BCE
Statue of a kouros (youth), ca. 590–580 B.C.; Archaic, AtticNaxian marble; Ht. w/o plinth 76” (193.04 cm)
Egyptian & Greek Kouroi (600s)
A kore (statue of a maiden) as modern archaeologists found it (on the left) and a reconstructed kore brightly painted as it would have appeared 2500 years ago when it was first made.
The classical ideal of the perfectly proportioned body showed the head being 1/7 the height of the body.
Statuette of a diskos thrower, ca. 480–460 B.C.; Classical
Greek Bronze; H. 9 5/8 in. (24.51 cm)
Michaelangelo’s David1501-1504 CE
Aerial views of how the Acropolis of Athens would have looked at the time of Pericles and looks now. Whereas the acropolis of a Greek polis had originally served as a fortress during the Dark Age, it typically became the site of a city-state’s temples in the less turbulent Classical period.
First Temple of Hera
Doric Ionic Corinthian
The crowning glory of the Acropolis, the Parthenon.
Two views of how the statue of Athena inside the Parthenon may have looked. The one on the right is in a near life-size reconstruction of the Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee.
http://www.mcah.columbia.edu/parthenon/flash/wfrieze.htm
Pediments
Metopes