Ancient Greece

Kouroi

&

Vase Painting

Discussion Format

• Review of Ancient Greece• Kouroi sculptures• Vase painting– Technique– Overview– Video Temples (if time)– Group work– Class Discussion

Peloponnesos

Peloponnesos

Regional Populations of the Greek World

DORIANS-settled in Peloponnesos

Ionians-settled in the western coast of Asia Minor (Modern Turkey)

Ionia

Mycenaean and Dark Ages

• Bronze Age – 1600-1200 BCE– Epics of Homer– Mycenaean– Lion Gate at Mycenae– Palace like citadels– Rich, prosperous society– Destruction of Palaces– Decline/ Fall of civilization

• Dark Ages– 1200-800 BCE– Lower population– Lost important arts and technologies– Lost contact to outside world

Renaissance of Ancient Greece

– 800-600 BCE– Included Geometric, Orientalizing, and Archaic Periods– More burials– More settlements– Technological changes– Monumental stone sculpture and buildings– Religious buildings– Oversees contact (trade and settlement)– Literacy– Olympic Games

• in 776 BCE the Greek-speaking states held their first athletic games at Olympia

• After the 1st Olympics, Greeks regarded all Greek-speaking people as Hellas

Ancient Greece• Geometric and Orientalizing Art (900-600 BCE)

– City-states took shape– Olympic Games were founded– Began trade– Contact with Egypt and Mesopotamia

• Orientalizing phase

• Archaic Art (600-480 BCE)– Life sized stone kouroi statues– Stone temples with peripteral colonnades– Doric and Ionic Orders– Red Figure Vase Painting

• Early and High Classical Art (480-400 BCE)– Persian sack of the Athenian Acropolis– Developments in statuary

Archaic Period600-480 BCE

Kouros/Kouroi (plural)• Life-size• Emulates Egyptian stance• Grave markers• Sculpted in the round

– Marble block– Carved from, drawings 4 sides

• Nude• Triangular head• Flat face• Naturalistic developments in features• Archaic Smile

– Showed person portrayed was alive

Kouros, Attica, Greece600 BCE

Kroisos, Anavysos, Greece530 BCE

Kore• Thought to be wearing a

peplos • Actually dressed in 4

different garments• Goddess• Broken hand would had

held an attribute to identify her

• Soft treatment of flesh• Would have been

painted

Peplos Kore, Acropolis, Athens, Greece, 530 BCE

Athenian Vase Painting

Andokides Painter, Achilles and Ajax playing dice game, (Amphora vase type)520 BCE

Black figure side Red figure side

Athenian Vase Painting

Athenian Vase Painting• Black Figure

– Start with unfired clay– Using a brush, painted subject on vase with clay slip (turned black

after firing)– Details and outlines were incised into the slip – Red and white pigments could then be added for accents– 3 phase firing process

• Red Figure– Outlines sketched – Redrawn with a brush using slip– Addition of other pigments if desired– Area between figures filled in with slip

Temple of Hera I (Basillica) Paestum, Italy, 550 BCE

West pediment, Temple of Artemis, Corfu, Greece, 600-580 BCE