GREEK ART AND ARCHITECTURE - Furman University



Art 26: GREEK ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Geometric Period

• Krater, from Diplylon cemetery, Athens

• Man and Centuar, perhaps from Olympia

Orientalizing Period

• Pitcher (olpe), from Corinth

Archaic Period

• Corner view of the Temple of Hera I, Paestum, Italy

• Euphronios, Herakles Wrestling Antaios, red-figure vase

• Euthymides, Three Revelers, red-figure vase

• Exekias, Achilles and Ajax Playing a Dice Game, black-figure vase

• Exekias, Dionysos in a Boat, black-figure vase

• Exekias, The Suicide of Ajax, black-figure vase

• Kroisos, from Anavysos

• Lady of Auxerre

• Medusa, fragment of sculpture from the west pediment of the Temple of

Artemis, Korkyra (Corfu)

• (New York) Kouros (figure 4-18)

• Peplos Kore

• Reconstruction of the west pediment of the Temple of Artemis, Korkyra (Corfu)

Classical Period

Transitional or Early Classical Period

• Kritios Boy

• Myron, Diskobolos (Discus Thrower) (Roman copy)

• Pan Painter, Artemis Slaying Actaeon, red-figure vase

• Young Warrior (Riace Bronze)

High Classical Period

• Kallikrates and Iktinos, Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens

• Lapith Fighting a Centaur, metope relief from the Doric

frieze on the south side of the Parthenon

• Marshals and Young Women, detail of the Procession, from the Ionic

frieze on the east side of the Parthenon

• Mnesikles, Erechtheion, Acropolis, Athens

• Nike (Victory) Adjusting Her Sandal, fragment of relief decoration from

the parapet (now destroyed), Temple of Athena Nike, Acropolis,

Athens

• Photographic mock-up of the east pediment of the Parthenon

• Polykleitos, Spear Bearer (Doryphoros) (Roman copy)

• Porch of the Maidens, (Caryatid Porch), Erechtheion, Acropolis, Athens

Late Classical Period

• Lysippos, Apoxymenos (Scraper) (Roman copy)

• Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Knidos (Roman copy)

• (Followers of) Praxiteles, Hermes and the Infant Dionysos (Roman copy)

Hellenistic Period

• Athanadoros, Hagesandros, and Polydoros of Rhodes, Laocoön and His

Sons (Fig. 24, p. 27)

• Athena Attacking the Giants, detail of the frieze from the east front of the

Altar from Pergamon

• Epigonos(?), Dying Gallic Trumpeter (Dying Gaul) (Roman copy)

• Nike (Victory) of Samothrace

• Reconstructed west front of the Altar from Pergamon, Turkey

Vocabulary:

abacus

acanthus leaf

acropolis

Archaic smile

architrave

base

black-figure painting

The Canon

capital

caryatid

cella (naos)

centaur

column

contrapposto (counterbalance)

Doric order, Ionic order, Corinthian order

drum

echinus

entablature

entasis

frieze

kore (korai, pl.)

kouros (kouroi, pl.)

kylix

metope

naturalism

Panathenaic Procession

pediment

Peloponnesian War

peplos

peristyle

Persian War

pronaos

red-figure painting

shaft

stereobate

strigil

stylobate

triglyph

volute

Who was who in ancient Greece:

Alexander the Great

Antigonus (Antigonid Dynasty)

Aphrodite

Athanadoros

Athena

Attalos I

Dionysos

Exekias

Hagesandros

Herakles

Hermes

Iktinos

Kallikrates

Lysippos

Medusa

Mnesikles

Perikles (also spelled Pericles)

Pheidias (also spelled Phidias)

Polydoros

Polykleitos

Praxiteles

Ptolemy (Ptolemaic Dynasty)

Seleucus (Seleucid Dynasty)

Be able to list/distinguish the five Greek periods: Geometric, Orientalizing (which is not discussed in your book), Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic.

Be able to label/identify the components of the Greek Doric and Ionic orders as illustrated on page 100, Elements of Architecture.

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