Greek pottery

3. CHRONOLOGY
• 1,050 – 900 BCE: Proto-Geometric
• 900 – 700 BCE: Geometric Period
• 700 – 600 BCE: Orientalizing Period
• 600 – 480 BCE: Archaic Period
• 480 – 323 BCE: Classical Period
– 480 – 450 BCE: Early Classical Period
– 450 – 400 BCE: High Classical Period
– 400 – 323 BCE: Late Classical Period
• 323 – 30 BCE: Hellenistic (Greek-like) Art

4. Greek Pottery

5. the first abstract art?
• Quite possibly the Greek alphabet
• in the 8th century B.C., vowels were added to the
Phoenician alphabet
• Homer probably saw his own stories written down during his
lifetime
• This was the beginning of the means of thoughtful and
uniform communication:
• that is, scientific and philosophic communication.
The early images as Greece peeked out of their
darkness came in the 8th century as well
• The Geometric Period
vases such as these are usually related to a funeral
even more stilted than Egyptian figures
Mourning of the
Dead, Greek, ~750
B.C.

6. Artist: Attributed to
the Hirschfeld
Workshop
Title: Funerary Vase
(Krater)

7. Title: Pitcher (Olpe)
Medium: Ceramic
with black-figure
decoration
Corinth

8. STANDARD SHAPES OF GREEK
VESSELS

9. Artist: Exekias
Title: The Suicide of
Ajax
Medium: Ceramic
amphora with black-
figure decoration

10. Artist: Exekias
Title: Achilles and Ajax Playing A Game
Medium: Ceramic amphora with black-figure decoration

11. Artist: Euphronios (painter) and Euxitheos (potter)
Title: Death of Sarpedon
Medium: Ceramic calyx krater with red-figure decoration

12. White Ground vase

13. White Ground Vase Paintings

14. Greek Architecture
and architectural
sculpture

15. Columns
–Doric (oldest)
–Ionic (most
commonly used)
– Corinthian

16. Doric order Corinthian order
Ionic order

17. Architectural Terms To Know
1. Base—bottom; three steps
2. Capital—top of column
3. Column
4. Entablature—whole piece of frieze that rests on top of
column
5. Frieze—where the picture is
6. Pediment—triangular element that rests on top
7. Shaft—the body of the column

19. Title: Temple of the Olympian Zeus, Athens; Acropolis in Distance
Size: Height of columns 55"5" (16.89 m)
Date: Building and rebuilding phases: foundation c. 520–510 BCE using the
Doric order; temple designed by Cossutius, begun 175 BCE, left unfinished 164
BCE, completed 132 CE using Cossutius’s design and the Corinthian order

20. A
B
P
Q
the dodecahedron was special (universe) even
in Pythagoras’ time. Take a pentagon face… another
construction…
Proportion was known to be psychologically pleasing

21. Title: Temple of Hera I, Paestum (Ancient Poseidonia)
and Hera II (In Foreground)
Date: c. 550–540 BCE (Hera I) & c. 470–460 BCE (Hera
II)

22. Temple of Hera I
Paestum, Italy
ca. 550 B.C.E.

23. Title: Reconstruction Drawing of the Treasury
of the Siphnians, Delphi Sanctuary of Apollo,
Delphi. c. 530–525 BCE
Caryatids

24. THE
ACROPOLIS

25. PARTHENON

26. Artist: Kallikrates
Title: Temple of Athena Nike
Date: c. 425 BCE
Source/Museum: Acropolis, Athens

27. 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
Source/Museum: Acropolis,
Athens

28. Title:
Theater,
Epidauros
Date: 4th
century BCE
and later

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