Ancient Art, PART 2

Ancient Greek Art (just for clarity)

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Ancient Greek Art: Cycladic Art- The Cyclades were small farming settlements which grew into major towns. There are not much creations that exist nowadays, except for the Cycladic period figures made from marble. This one is called...

• Male harp player from Keros, c. 2600-2300 BCE

• Kore from Chios, c. 570 BCE

• Doryphoros by Polykleitos, c. 440 BCE

• Venus de Milo, c. 130–100 BCE

Ancient Greek Art: Minoan Art (c. 2000-1100 BC)- foundation of the main cities in Crete. One of the people' s creations was called....

• • The Parthenon — a Classical Greek temple in Athens, built much later.

• • The Temple of Zeus at Olympia — a major Classical Greek temple, unrelated to Minoan Crete.

• Ancient Greek Art: Minoan Art (c. 2000-1100 BC)- foundation of the main cities in Crete. One of the people' s creations was called....

• 1. The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus — a Hellenistic tomb

Ancient Greek Art: Mycenean Art- Mainland Greece, known for their fortified citadels, royal thombs within the cities. Their significance in architecture is their

• Large marble temples dedicated to the gods

• Mosaic floors depicting everyday life

• Pottery and gold work, which depict their wars

• Mosaic floors depicting everyday life

Ancient Greek Art: Greek Archaic Art (480-323 BC)- How did the Greek Archaic Period ended?

• with the defeat of Alexander the Great in Persia

• with the fall of the Roman Empire

• with the start of the Peloponnesian War

• with the persians being ejected from Greece for good after the battles of Plataea and Mykale in 479 BCE

Ancient Greek Art: Greek Archaic Art (480-323 BC)- What changed/ was created in the political structure?

• Unified Greek empire under one ruler

• Democratic empire ruled by a senate

• City states/Polis

• Absolute monarchy with divine kings

Ancient Greek Art: Greek Archaic Art (480-323 BC)- The changes were:

•Increasing population of Greece,
• increasing amount trade, which in turn led to colonization and a new age of intellectual ideas: Democracy.
• The first Greek alphabet being developed.
• From c. 650 BC: use of stone to build temples and sacred architectures.
• Development of architectural orders; sculptors learning the complexity of human body and try to represent standing out sculptures.

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Ancient Greek Art: Greek Archaic Art (480-323 BC)- This is called.....

- commonly known as The Calf Bearer, c. 560 BC
-The sculpture was found on the Athenian Acropolis in 1864. It is made of permeable limestone, and its plinth was attached to the right foot of the sculpture
- The inscription on that plinth claims that this statue was dedicated by someone named Rhombos to Athena, goddess of wisdom
- He stands with his left foot a little forward, like other kouroi
- The challenge of representing man and animal together is successfully accomplished
- "Archaic smile"

Ancient Greek Art: Greek Archaic Art (480-323 BC)- This is called..... c. 580 BC

• Free-standing figures that depict the male youth.
• One leg stepping forward, arms locked to their sides.
• Egyptian models
• Kouros (pl. kouroi, ancient word for boy) and kore (pl. korai, ancient word for girl) were typical statues of the archaic period. Votive sculptures, representing nen and women voting to a god; generally located in the nearby of temples and often painted
• To give the figures a sense of life, most kouros and kore figures smile

Ancient Greek Art: Greek Archaic Art (480-323 BC)- This is called.....

The intact clay pottery vessel was found at the Dipylon cemetery (755-750 BC), near the Dipylon Gate, in Kerameikos, the ancient potters quarter on the northwest side of the ancient city of Athens. It is one of around 50 examples attributed to an unknown artist given the notname of "the Dipylon Master", one of the earliest individually identifiable Greek artists.
The amphora is entirely covered with horizontal bands of geometric, animal and bird motifs. A rectangular panel on the shoulder depicts a funerary scene.
The human and animal figures are treated in the stylized, simplified manner of Geometric art.
Example of Black Figure Pottery.
Special commission for the funeral of a wealthy Athenian, possibly a woman.