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Lecture 7 - AHI1A
Archaic, Orientalizing
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
10/21/2011

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Definition
POLYKLEITOS, Doryphoros (Spear Bearer, copy),
original ca. 450 – 440 BCE
“Classical”
Marble,
6’ 11” high
Term
[image]
Definition
Kroisos(kouros from Anavysos),
ca. 530 BCE
“Archaic”
Marble,
6’ 4” high
Term
[image]
Definition
Krater,
ca. 740 BCE
Athens
Earthenware,
3’ 4.5” high
Term
Greece: Geometric Phase (time period)
Definition
ca. 900 – 700 BCE
Term
[image]
Definition
Mycenaean flask,
ca. 1200 – 1100 BCE
Earthenware.
Term
[image]
Definition
Hero and centaur
(Herakles and Nessos?),
ca. 750 – 730 BCE
found at Olympia,
Bronze, 4.5” high

Compare the similar form of the centaur to the detail on the mycaenean jug
Term
Greece: Orientalizing phase (time period)
Definition
ca. 700 – 600 BCE
Term
[image]
Definition
Mantiklos Apollo,
ca. 700 – 680 BCE
Thebes
Bronze, 8” high
Term
[image]
Definition
Kouros,
ca. 600 BCE,
Archaic
Marble, 6’ 0.5” high

Can compare to similar sculptures such as Khafre (earlier example) and Kroisos (later example)

As the archaic period progresses, sculptures become more detailed (hair, abdomen detail, bulkier figure)
Term
Greece: Archaic phase (time period)
Definition
ca. 600 – 480 BCE
Term
[image]
Definition
Zeus attacking a giant,
ca. 600 – 580 BCE,
Archaic
West pediment,
Temple of Artemis,

compare to assyrian stone relief, very similar
Term
Greece: Orientalizing phase (time period)
Definition
ca. 700 – 600 BCE
Term
[image]
Definition
“Lady of Auxerre”
ca. 650 – 625 BCE
Orientalizing
Limestone,
2’ 1.5” high
Term
[image]
Definition
Peplos Kore
ca. 530 BCE,
Archaic
Athens
Marble, 4’ high
Term
[image]
Definition
Kore
(Ionian dress),
ca. 520 – 510 BCE
Archaic
Athens
Marble, 1’ 9” high
Term
[image]
Definition
Siphnian Treasury,
ca. 530 BCE
Archaic
Delphi
Term
[image]
Definition
Gigantomachy,
ca. 530 BCE
Detail, north frieze,
Siphnian Treasury
Term
[image]
Definition
façade of Temple A,
Prinias,
ca. 625 BCE
Term
[image]
Definition
lintel,
Temple A, Prinias,
ca. 625 BCE
Term
[image]
Definition
Medusa, 9’ 4” high,
West pediment,
atypical frieze at Temple of Artemis,
ca. 600 – 580 BCE
Corfu
Term
[image]
Definition
Temple of Hera I,
ca. 550 BCE
Archaic
Paestum (former Greek colony), Italy
Term
[image]
Definition
Plans,
Temple of Hera I,
ca. 550 BCE
Archaic
Paestum

All of these archaic floorplans were based upon mathematical relationship, and created to be parallel, symmetric structures (see athena and hera 2)
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