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160 years,
Defeat of Persians in 479 BCE
Death of Alexander the Great 323BCE
3 Parts, Early, 5th and 4th century
Humanism, realism, and idealism
Observations than from memory
Title: Reconstruction drawing of the west pediment of the Temple of Zeus, Olympia
Date: 470–460 BCE
Early classical Period
Doric Temple to Zeus in Olympia
Apollo helping Lapiths defeat the centaurs.
Fight started over women
How is Apollo different then the other?
Title: Apollo with Battling Lapiths and Centaurs
Medium: Marble
Size: height of Apollo 10'8" (3.25 m)
Date: c.470– 460 BCE
How is Apollo different then the other?
Title: Athena, Herakles, and
Atlas
Medium: Marble
Size: height 5'3" (1.59 m)
Date: c. 460 BCE
Source/Museum: Metope
relief from the frieze
Relief?
Herakles (believed to be the
founder of the olympic
games) hold sky up for
Atlas, with the help of
Athena.
Contrast in Views?
http://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=88gXWW3qN7
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Title: Kritian Boy
Medium: Marble
Size: height 3'10" (1.17
m)
Date: c. 480 BCE
From Acropolis of
Athens
Slight turn of head
invited viewer around
Transitional figure
Pair Share
Title: Charioteer
Medium: Bronze, copper (lips and lashes),
silver (hand), onyx (eyes)
Size: height 5'11" (1.8 m)
Date: c. 470 BCE
Hollow casting-similar to lost-wax casting
Buried during a 373 BCE earthquacke
Displaying makes a difference
Details of the FEET!
Title: Warrior A (back)
Medium: Bronze with bone and
glass eyes, silver teeth, and copper
lips and nipples.
Size: height 6'9" (2.05 m)
Date: c. 460–450 BCE
Source/Museum: Found in the
sea off Riace, Italy
Found in the sea in 1972
Youthful body mature face
Eye ball are of bone and colored
glass
Lips and nipples pinkish bronze
Once held?
Artist: Myron
Title: Discus Thrower (Diskobolos)
Medium: Marble
Size: height 5'11" (1.55 m)
Date: Roman copy after the original bronze of
c. 450 BCE
Original was bronze
Caught at critical moment
Snapshot.
How does he differ that other statues we
have seen?
http://video.pbs.org/video/980040
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450-400 BCE
Peloponnesian Wars
Athens is an acropolis- City on a hill
Athens had ring walls and agora- marketplace
Title: Athens: Acropolis from the Air
480 BCE Persians destroy the acropolis
Pericles convinces Athenians to rebuild
Title: Model of the Acropolis, Athens
Date: c. 447–432 BCE
Athena Nike
Athena Promachos
Proplyaia- gateway
Athena Parthenos
Artemis Brauronia
Erechitheion
Artist: Kallikrates and Iktinos
Title: Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens. View from the northwest
Medium: Pantelic marble
Date: 447–432 BCE
Doric Temple 447 BCE work resumes
Entasis columns
Artist: Alan LeQuire
Title: Athena, the
Parthenon, Nashville
Tennessee. Recreation of
Pheidias’s Huge Gold and
Ivory Figure.
Size: height 41' 10"
Date: 1982–1990
Phidias began his work
around 447 BCE
it was damaged by a fire
about 165 BCE but
repaired.
It continued to stand in
the Parthenon in the fifth
century CE, when it may
have been lost in another
fire.
An account mentions it in
Constantinople in the
tenth century, however
Artist: William Pars
Title: The Parthenon When it Contained a Mosque
Has been a
•Christian Church dedicated to the virgin Mary
•Islamic mosque
•Turkish /munitions storage facility
•Archaeological site
•Major Tourist Attraction
Title: East pediment of the Parthenon
Medium: Marble
Size: The pediment is over 90 feet (27.45 m) long; the central space of about 40 feet (12.2 m) is
missing
Date: c. 447–432 BCE
Birth of AthenaLeft Side- 3 goddess, reclining nude(Maybe Hercules, Maybe Dionysus)
Iris the messenger of the gods standing
Title: East pediment of the Parthenon
Medium: Marble
Size: The pediment is over 90 feet (27.45 m) long; the central space of about 40 feet (12.2 m) is
missing
Date: c. 447–432 BCE
3 female figures- once thought to be the 3 fates
Now it is believed they are the goddess, Hestia, Aphrodite, Dione
Thomas Bruce Earl of Elgin “Eligin Marbles”
Title: Lapith Fighting A
Centaur
Medium: Marble
Size: height 56" (1.42 m)
Date: c. 447–432 BCE
Doric Frieze
92 Metrope Reliefs of Battle
scenes
“X”
Fluid motions
Man's Triumph
Represents hard muscle soft
flesh
Title: Horsemen
Medium: Marble
Size: height 41¾" (106 cm)
Date: c. 447–432 BCE
Source/Museum: Detail of the Procession, from the Ionic frieze on the north side of the
Parthenon / The British Museum, London.
Ionic Frieze – represents a ceremony
Men ride atop strong horses
with graceful but physically study walkers.
Represents Athens as a healthy, independent, by governed by a democracy who recieves
favors from the gods
Title: Horsemen
Medium: Marble
Size: height 41¾" (106 cm)
Date: c. 447–432 BCE
Part of the precession Frieze, women as tall as horse, wrong propportions
Top in high relief then bottom of sculpture
Blue background, red and yellow clothes
Title: Erechtheion. View from the east. Porch of the maidens at left; north porch can be seen
through the columns of the east wall
Date: 421–406 BCE
2nd largest building in Acropolis
Dedicated to many god’s- houses Poseidon's rock
Scared Spring of Erechtheus (former king of Athens) Influenced by Demeter
½ man ½ serpent, Kekrops, founded Athens judge of Poseidon and Athena
Title: Porch of The Maidens (South
Porch), Erechtheion
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: Temple 430s–406 BCE; porch c.
420–410 BCE
3 porches, east, south, and north
North Porch- Ionic
South porch, porch of the Madiens
6 Caraytids, doric capital but ionic
entablature
3 and 3 leg bends
Weakest point?
Artist: Kallikrates
Title: Temple of Athena Nike
Date: c. 425 BCE
425 bce
Ionic Order- Amphiprostyle- porch at each end
Porch facing city is blind- no entrance to cella
surrounded by a parapet- low faced wall
Title: Nike (Victory) Adjusting Her Sandal
Medium: Marble
Size: height 3' 6" (1.06 m)
Date: Last quarter of the 5th century (perhaps 410–
405) BCE
Winged figures named “Victories”
From Parapet
Gracefully bends, chiton slips of shoulder,
Texture appears delicate a light, wet silk
“discreetly erotic image”
Artist: Polykleitos
Title: Spear Bearer (Doryphoros), also known as Achilles
Medium: Marble (tree trunk and brace strut are Roman additions)
Size: height 6'11" (2.12 m)
Date: Roman copy after the original bronze of c. 450–440 BCE
The Canon of Polykleitos- rules that constructed the perfect
human form
Relationships of body parts, tension vs. relaxation.
Relationships in weight building
Contrapposto- cross-balancing of supporting and free elements
Upper body supported on one leg
Movement vs stationary
Tension