Introduction Through Geometric PDF

Ancient
Greece
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Khafre
2575 – 2525
BCE
Ramses II
1275 – 1225
BCE
1300 Year
Difference
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Youth
Ca. 600 BCE
Laocoon
1st Century
BCE
500 Year
Difference
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Mount
Olympus
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A Greek God
Egyptian Gods
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• Because the ancient Greeks believed in
anthropomorphic gods, how would this
affect the figural representations (way
of representing the human form) in
their art?
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Four major artistic periods
1. Geometric – the earliest – 9th-8th
centuries BCE
2. Archaic – known for painted pottery and
kouroi statues 7th-6th century BCE
3. Classical – The perfection of the human
form, heroic figures that barely show any
emotion 5th-4th centuries BCE
4. Hellenistic – After the death of Alexander
the Great, very expressionistic,
emotional, and sometimes erotic 3rd-2nd
centuries BCE
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Geometric Art
900 – 700 BCE
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Dipylon Amphora
Dipylon Krater
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Dipylon
Krater
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Figure 5-3 Hero and centaur
(Herakles and Nessos?), from
Olympia,Greece, ca. 750–730
BCE. Bronze, 4 1/2” high.
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York (gift of J. Pierpont).
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Orientalizing
Early 7th Century BCE Greeks came in contact with the
civilizations of the ancient near east and Egypt. Adopted
many of their motifs (subjects or themes) that this period is
called the Orientalizing Period.
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Mantiklos Apollo
ca. 700-680 B.C.E.
bronze
approximately 8 in. high
More interest in details.
Dedication scratched into thighs.
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Corinthian black-figure amphora
ca. 625-600 B.C.E.
ceramic
approximately 1 ft. 2 in. high
Design is not a narrative – just motifs of local
and exotic animals as well as imaginary
ones.
Black slip (watery, liquid clay) over red clay
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Plan of Temple A
Prinias, Greece
ca. 625 B.C.E.
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Lintel of Temple A
Prinias, Greece
ca. 625 B.C.E.
limestone
approximately 2 ft. 9 in. high
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Lady of Auxerre,
statue of a
goddess or kore,
ca, 650 – 635
BCE, approx. 2
feet high
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