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| Greeks admired aethestics and studied them. Obsessed with fate, prized intellect and reason. Hellenes is Greek for Greek. Independent city states. 776 BC when first Olympic games started, helped the city states feel like a group. Kids trained physically/mentally/strategy. They owned slaves, woman were not equal. |
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Zeus, Hera (Zeus's wife), Poseidon, Dementer (Seasons), Athena (Wisdom), Hestia (Hearth), Apollo, Artemis (The Hunt), Ares (War), Aphrodite (Love), Hermes, and Hephaistos (forge).
Jupiter, Juno, Neptune, Ceres, Vesta, Minerva, Vulcan, Apollo Diana, Mars, Venus, Mercurey, Vulcan. |
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Place: Dipylon cemetery, Athens
Culture: Geometric
Date: 740 BC
Pottery medium, Was used to mix wine and water. Had holes in the bottom and was a grave marker. Geometric art with bands on it. Story tells of a man on his death bed with many mourners. Used only for men. |
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Greek Periods
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900-700 BC, had many geometic patterns.
700-600 BC Many eastern influences.
600-480 BC Origions, grinning face
480-323 BC Greece wins vs Persia, Pellopesian war, acropollis. |
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Place: Thebes, Greece
Culture: Orientalizing period
Date: 780-680 BC
Statuette, bronze meidium 8 in tall. Votive offering. More natualistic/egyptian look. Figurine made for Apollo in hopes for a favorable return. Inscrpition on the legs. |
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Culture: Orientalizing period
Date: 650 BC
Kore (youthful female) object. Limestone medium, 2 ft. tall. Was a votive offering with egyptian influences. Encaustic painting method used. Daedlalic art style. Always clothed. |
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Culture: Archaic period
Date: 600 BC
Youthful male figure. Almost always nude. Daedlalic influences with more curves. Marble medium, lifesize. Funerary grave marker. |
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Place: Athens, Acropolis
Culture: Archaic
Date: 560 BC
Kouros, Moschophoros means calf bearer. Dedicated by Rhombos as a votive offering. Lifesize marble medium. Calf was a sacrifice. More naturalism but still daedalic. Grinning face. |
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Place: Anavysos, Greece
Culture: Archaic
Date: 530 BC
Kouros once again!. Lifesize, grave marker for Kroisos. Died in battle due to gods/fate. More natural style but still daedelic. Illiad crest muscle is emphasized. |
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Place: Athens, Acropolis
Culture: Archaic
Date: 530 BC
Lifesize. Brightly painted, votive offering. Marble medium, would have had lots of jewlery and incise designs. |
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Greek Temple Plans
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1. Stereobate (or substructure).
2. Stylobate.
3. Colonnade (or peristyle).
4. Porch (or pronaos).
5. Cella (or naos).
6. Rear porch (or opisthodomus).
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1. Stylobate (level on which collums stand)
3. Peristyle (external colonnade on four sides).
4. Pronaos (porch)
6. Opisthodomus (rear porch)
5. Cella
Ante are walls that project from the center to create the porches. Collumns done by taking short side x2 + 1 |
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Doric Order temple
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Doric order is from mainland Greece/Peleponnese. had triglyph/Metope detail in the entablature (upper building). Capital (top of column) had an Echinus. Shaft had no base. Overall style was heavier/lower.
Ionic order is from Ionia (turkey area). Capital had Volute, Columns had a base. Overall style was leaner, taller, and more decorated. |
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Peripteral: Temple with a single peristyle.
Prostyle: Columns only in front of temple.
Amphiprostyle: Columns in front and back of temple.
Peirstyle: Columns all around temple. |
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Place: Paestum, Italy
Culture: Archaic
Date: 550 BC
80 ft by 170ft. Entasis columns. Peirstyle temple with odd number of columns. |
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Achilles and Ajax
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Culture: Archaic
Date: 540-530 BC
Exekias was the potter/painter. Amphora with a black painting style with incised detail. Very popular artist. Dramatic depiction of them during the war. |
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Culture: Archaic
Date: 510 BC
Euthymides was just the painer. Amphora with a red painting style. Addative painting over incising. Euthymides wrote on his art that he was very good and showed that there was a lot of competition among artists. |
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Place: Athens, Acropolis
Culture: Classical
Date: 480 BC
Marked the end of daedelic art. Natural pose called contrapposto. Slightly under lifesize. Marble medium. |
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Place: Riace, Italy
Culture: Classical
Date: 460-450 BC
Export items. Were very expensive/important. Hollow cast bronze with bronze/silver inlay for details. Lifesize, contrapposto pose. Severe style (serious face). |
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Culture: Classical
Date: 450 BC
Lifesize. Diskobolos means discus thrower. Roman coppy, but origional artist is Myron. Origional would have been copper, coppy is marble. Marble required extra support (treetrunk looking support). Myron known for athletic images. |
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| An off center parting of the hair with the locks brushed up and back near the part; a recognizable feature in the portraits of Alexander the Great. |
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| An open space used for public meetings or business in ancient Greek cities. |
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| A rule of proportion. The Greek sculptor Polykleitos wrote a ‘canon’ outlining the proportions for the ideal statue. |
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| A female figure that functions as a supporting column. |
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The projecting, crowning member of the entablature framing the pediment; also,
any crowning projection. |
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| A convex tapering (an apparent swelling) in the shaft of a column. |
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In the Classical Greek Ionic order, the three horizontal bands that make up the
architrave. |
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Vertical channeling, roughly semicircular in cross-section and used
principally on columns and pilasters. |
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The use of perspective to represent in art the apparent visual contraction
of an object that extends back in space at an angle to the perpendicular plane of sight. |
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| The part of the entablature between the architrave and the cornice; also, any sculptured or ornamented band in a building, on furniture, etc. |
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The term given to the Greek culture that developed after the death of
Alexander the Great in 323 BC and lasted until the Roman conquest of Egypt in 31BC. |
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| An ancient Greek three handled water pitcher. |
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| Literally, “in place.” Referring to an object or work as in the original position. |
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| An ancient Greek shallow drinking cup with two handles and a stem. |
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An ancient Greek and Roman exercise area, usually framed by a colonnade,
often found in bathing establishments. |
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-In classical architecture, the triangular space (gable) at the end of a building,
formed by the ends of the sloping roof above the colonnade; also, an ornamental feature having this shape. |
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A simple long woolen belted garment worn by ancient Greek women that gives
the female figure a columnar appearance. |
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| An ancient Greek general. Pericles was a famous Athenian strategos. |
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A scraper, used by ancient Greek athletes to scrape oil from their bodies after
exercising. |
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tiny stones or pieces of glass cut to desired size and shape used in the creation
of mosaics. |
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