Archaic Relief Sculpture

Archaic Relief Sculpture
550-490 B.C.E.
Francois Vase – “A Dictionary of Mythology”
Attic, Black Figure 580-70 B.C.E.
Allied Invasion, Sept. 9, 1945
Foce del Sele, Italy
Orestes Murders Aegisthus
Herakles Wrestles Antaios
Foce del Sele
ca. 550 (Paestum
Museum)
Herakles Steals Tripod from Apollo
Herakles Captures Kerkopes
Siphnian Treasury
at Delphi 525 BCE
Delphi
Island of Siphnos
Delphi Siphnian Treasury
525 BCE
Looking toward port of Itea
From the Temple of Apollo
(Delphi)
Looking up toward the Temple of Apollo (Delphi)
Temple of Apollo, Delphi
Sacred Way ascending past
the treasuries and toward the
Temple of Apollo
Sacred Way – Treasury of Sikyon
(Doric, just before 548 BCE) and
beyond it the Treasury of the
Siphnians (Ionic, 525 BCE)
Siphnian Treasury
1.  Master A (earlier) – Two Plains (above)
2.  Master B (later) – Movement in Space (below)
Siphnian Treasury (Delphi)
525 BCE (based on information
from Herodotus)
East Frieze by “Master B”
1)  Gods on Olympos, 2) Battle Scene
Juxtaposed in Homeric “Parataxis”
Siphnian Treasury, East Frieze
Remnants of Paint
Siphnian Treasury, East
Frieze
Foundry Ptr 490-480 BCE,
Wurzburg
Euphronios ca.
530 BCE (right)
Master B – North Frieze
Battle of Gods and Giants
Euphronios 530 BCE
Villa Guilia, Rome
Foundry Painter ca. 480 BCE
Hermonax Basel 85.483
470-440 BCE
A “Bi-Lingual”
Amphora c. 520 BCE
The Sacred Way, Delphi
Treasury of
the Athenians
ca 490 BCE
Statue
Base
Athenian Treasury – Statue Base
Athenian Treasury (Delphi) ca. 490 BCE
Theseus &
Athena (left)
Theseus &
Antiope (below
& right)
Athenian Treasury
(Delphi) ca. 490 BCE
Painter of Tarquinia C 3984
(Florence 3797) 550-525 BCE
Andokides Painter
525 BCE
Berlin Painter 500-490
Berlin Painter 490-480
Ok, That’s It!