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Ancient Greek Art
Periods
• Homeric period – 12 – 8 c. BCE
• Archaic period – 7 – 6 c. BCE
• Pre-Classic period – 490 – 440 BCE
• Classic period - 440 – 323 BCE
• Hellenistic period – 323 – 1 BCE
• Each period is divided into early, middle and late stage.
Homeric period
Monumental sculpture (Lions gate), funeral art, and small stylized
wooden sculptures of gods and heroes
Archaic period
• Kouros – male, nude, frontal, symmetric
• Kora – female, dressed, painted, frontal, symmetric
• Muscular• Always smile• 2 schools – Doric and
Ionian.
Classic period - Myron
Polykleitos - Doryphoros
• Javelin thrower• Worked in Argos• Wrote “Canon”,
describing the proportions of human body
Peonius - Nike
• Masters the motion through the arrangement of clothes
Skopas - Hercules
Phideas - Zeus
Phideas – Battle of Centurions
Praxiteles – Aphrodite of Knidos