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Ancient Greek Art

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

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Page 1: 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

Ancient Greek Art

Page 2: 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

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.

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Homeric period

Monumental sculpture (Lions gate), funeral art, and small stylized

wooden sculptures of gods and heroes

Page 4: 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
Page 5: 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
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Archaic period

• Kouros – male, nude, frontal, symmetric

• Kora – female, dressed, painted, frontal, symmetric

• Muscular• Always smile• 2 schools – Doric and

Ionian.

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Classic period - Myron

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Polykleitos - Doryphoros

• Javelin thrower• Worked in Argos• Wrote “Canon”,

describing the proportions of human body

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Peonius - Nike

• Masters the motion through the arrangement of clothes

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Skopas - Hercules

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Phideas - Zeus

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Phideas – Battle of Centurions

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Praxiteles – Aphrodite of Knidos