From High Classical to Hellenistic: Highlights from the canon of Greek Art History. Continuing through Etruscan artwork.

1. T, R, 12-1:20PM
Professor Paige Prater

2. 
Place

3. 
 900-600BCE The Geometric and The Orientalizing
 600-480BCE Archaic
 480-323BCE Classical
 450-400BCE High Classical
 400-323BCE Late Classical
 323-31/30BCE Hellenistic
Time Periods

4. 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88gXWW3qN7o
 Classical Period (160 YEARS):
 480BCE – Defeat of the Persians by the Athenians (Marathon)
 323BCE – Death of Alexander the Great
 HUMANISM, RATIONALISM, IDEALISM
 ―MAN IS THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS‖
 ―KNOW THYSELF‖
 ―NOTHING IN EXCESS‖
Reason vs. Emotion!
 Polykleitos, The Canon (450 BCE)
Early Classical 480-450BCE

5. 
Review of Architectural Terms

6. 
 Domination of Sparta (Peloponnesus/mainland
Greece) and Athens (Aegean/maritime empire)
 462-429BCE – Pericles: haughty/patron of the arts in
Athens
 Rebuild the Acropolis : 22,000 TONS of marble from
10mi away, (completed end of 5th century, BCE)
High Classical

7. 
 http://dma.ticketleap.com/late-nights--the-body-
beautiful-in-ancient-greece/
Late Night at DMA TOMORROW! $5 for
special exhibit: Body Beautiful
6PM-11:59PM

8. 
 Is it ever justifiable to take artwork out of it’s original
context? If so, under what circumstances? Why or
why not? (Give three reasons.)
 Class debate on the Elgin Marbles
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKZ_ilKcsEM
The Elgin Marbles:
―Elginism‖

9. 
Leo Caillard ―Hipster in Stone‖
series (Photoshop)

10. 
http://www.leocaillard.com/

11. 
 Spartans defeat Athens in 404 BCE/ rebellion in a
year
 387 BCE – Plato founds a school outside Athens
 338 BCE – Phillip II of Macedonia defeated Athens;
two years later, his 20 year old son assumed the
throne after his father’s assassination: Alexander the
Great (studied under Aristotle.)
 Tholos (circular) and monumental tombs
 Orthogonal/grid plans for cities (i.e. in Miletos)
Late Classical

12. 
Hermes & the Infant
Dionysos by Praxiteles
(copy of 4th century original)
 Smaller head
 Sensual body
 S curve
 Contrasting textures
 Relationship between gods
(Hermes/Dionysos)
 Sense of emotion

13. 
 Praxiteles
 First nude woman sculpture
 Preparing for bath
 Gesture of modesty
 Hint of athletic strength
 Bend of knee inward
 At least 50 copies exist
today
 Read description in book*
Aphrodite of Knidos
(c. 350 BCE)

14. 
The Scraper, Lysippos
(350-325BCE)
 Lysippos: self-taught/”nature”
 Nude athlete after his workout
 Young man removing dirt/oil from
 body with scraping tool (strigil)
 Legs in wider stance
 Dreamy look, tousled hair
 Weight evenly distributed
 Breaks out into negative space
 Longer body

15. 
Alexander the Great Confronts Darius III at the Battle of
Issos, 310BCE, floor mosaic, Pompeii

16. 
 323 BCE – Alexander the Great dies; NO replacement
 3 Generals, new kingdoms: Antigonus
(Macedonia/Mainland Greece), Ptolemy(Egypt), and
Seleucas (Asia Minor)—eventually subsumed into
ROMAN Empire…
 Alexandria, Egypt – Hellenistic cultural center
 Lighthouse (7 Wonders of the Ancient World)
 Library (700,000 papyrus and parchment scrolls!)
 30BCE – Death of Cleopatra = end of Hellenistic
period
Hellenistic (323-30BCE)

17. 
 520-510BCE Doric (foundation); 175BCE begun;
132CE finished
 CORINTHIAN CAPITALS!
Temple of Zeus, Athens

18. 
Theater at Epidauros
• Semicircle
• Elevated Hill
• Festival, Dionysos
• Tragedies
• Orchestra
• Altar to Dionysos
• 12,000 spectators; 55
rows of seats
• Two tiered structure:
Skene, Proscenium
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=lQOPFxuiaWQ

19. 
Dying Gallic Trumpeter
(220BCE)

20. 
Dying Warrior (500-490 BCE)
Sculpture from left corner of east pediment of Temple
of Aphaia, Aegina.

21. 
Pergamon
Altar(175-150BCE)
Ionic colonnade
Monumental staircase 68 x
30
7 ft high sculptural frieze
Gods & Giants battle
Forms extend onto steps
into viewer’s space

22. 
 Discovered in 1863 by French
explorer
Nike (Victory) of
Samothrace (c. 180?BCE) Pergamon in
Seleucid kingdom

23. 
 Roman copy? 8’
 Priest Laocoon
warns Trojans
 Greek gods send
sea serpents
Laocoon and His Sons
(1st century CE)

24. 
I was excited! (June 2013)

25. 
Old Woman (1st Century CE)
 Ordinary
individual
 Woman on way
to agora
 Theory: follower
of Dionysos
 Emphasis on
rendering of
textures

26. 
Aphrodite of Melos(a.k.aVenus de Milo)
(150-100BCE)
vs

27. 
 She-
Wolf, 500BCE
(Etruscan);
 15-16th
century, twins
added
 33 ½‖
Etruscan Art

28. 
 6-7th centuriesBCE
 North & central Italy
 Fertile soil
 Abundance of ore
 Loose federation of a dozen cities
 Post & lintel
 Grid city (on compass)/business district
 House with atrium
Etruscans

29. 
Porta Augusta (2-3rd Century BCE)
Perugia, Italy

30. 
Model of Etruscan
Temple (Vitruvius described)

31. 
 Used more by Etruscans and Romans
Arch, Vault, & Dome

32. 
Apollo, Temple of
Minerva (510-500BCE)

33. 
Sarcophagus from
Cerveteri (520BCE)

34. 
Burial Chamber, Tomb
of the Reliefs (3rd C BCE)