Greek Art

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Greek Art
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• Three major Aegean cultures
• The Cycladic 2500-2000 BCE
• The Minoan
• Middle and Late periods
• 2000-1400 BCE
• The Mycenaean
• 2000-1200 BCE

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Cycladic Art
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Palace at Knossos
Minoan Culture
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Wall paintings
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Mycenaen Culture
Lion Gate at Mycenae 1300 BCE
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The Treasury of Atreus 1300-1250 BCE
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Funerary Mask 1600-1500 BCE
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Greek Art

• Geometric 900-700 BCE
• Archaic 660-480 BCE
• Classical Early and Late 480-336 BCE
• Hellenistic 336-146 BCE

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Geometric 900-700 BCE
Dipylon Vase with funerary scene 8th C.,BCE
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Archaic 660- 480 BCE

• Black figure and Red figure pottery
• Development of Doric Temple Order
• Kouros and Kore statues
• The archaic smile

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Kleitias Francois Vase 570 BCE
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Black-figure style
Red-figure style
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Peplos Kore 530 BCE
Kouros figure 600 BCE
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Fallen Warrior 490-480 BCE
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Classical

• Temples
• Refinement of Doric Order (Parthenon)
• Development of Ionic and Corinthian Orders
• Figural Sculpture
• Cast Bronze and Carved Marble
• Illusion of Movement
• Development of Contrapposto
• Canon of Proportions

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Athena Parthenos Approx 38 tall
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The Three Goddesses 438-431 BCE
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Myron Discus Thrower 450 BCE
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Polykleitos Spear Bearer 450-440 BCE Contrapposto
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Late Classical

• Humanistic and naturalistic style
• S-curve
• New, slimmer canon of proportions

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Praxiteles Hermes and Dionysos 330-320 BCE The
only undisputed original work of the Greeks from
this period
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Lyssipos Apoxyomenos 330 BCE Lysippan Canon of
Proportion
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Archaic Early
High Classical Late Classical
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Hellenistic

• Reign of Alexander the Great
• Use of Lysippan Canon of Proportion and
  Contrapposto
• Dramatic poses and emotions

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The Dying Gaul 240-200 BCE
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Laocoon and his Sons 160-20 BCE
Venus de Milo 2nd century BCE