1. For the Glory of the Deities, Warriors,
and Athletes
Part II
Art and Architecture of Ancient Greece
Class 08
2. Sculpture- Human Figure:
Archaic Period (625 480 BC)
Began in proto-geometric and geometric periods
? Made votive figures using clay
Archaic period
Nude male (kouros)
Well-dressed female (kore)
3. Ancient Greeks - no obsession with the afterlife.
Mostly concerned with the comfort of their earthly
existence.
Often sought to immortalize their own actions and beliefs
through art.
Attitude towards secularism and the focus on ones' self as
a living being paved the way for the development of
classical Greek thought which in turn became the
foundation of the western civilization as it developed to our
day.
4. Kore (Phrasikleia) by Ariston of Paros
and Kouros,
lifesize, circa 550 B.C.
Found in a pit at Merenda in Attica in 1972.
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6. All of the Kouros (male) and Kore (female) statues
represent;
state sponsored subjects or
designed as decorations of religious buildings, or
as immortal reminders of the virtues of a
--deceased.
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• Kouros
Marble, lifesize, circa 540 B.C.
Found at the cemetery of
Anavysos
On the base a verse was
carved:
• "Stand and grieve at the
tomb of Kroisos the dead,
in the front line slain by
the wild Ares"
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• Aristodikos, Marble, circa 500
B.C. 1.95m tall
The name Aristodikos is
carved at the statue's base.
This Kouros has short hair and
the hands are not attached to
the sides of the body. The
statue with its more rounded,
less stylized characteristics,
and with its light pose (it is not
as "stiff" as other kouroi,)
represents a forward step in
the development of art, and
prepares the ground for the
eventual move towards
classical sculpture.
14. Severe Style
Harmodius and
Aristogeiton by
Kritios and Nesiotes
477/76 BC
Set up in Athens to mark the
overthrow of the tyranny
were said to be the first
public monuments to actual
people.
15. Architecture –Sanctuaries
Depended heavily in the use of column and lintel as
the basic constructional elements
Favored rectangular of circular plan
Began the use of marbles as the material for walls
and columns
18. Orders of Greek architecture
Two main styles (or "orders): Doric and the Ionic.
The names were used by the Greeks themselves.
Reflects their belief that the styles descended from the
Dorian and Ionian Greeks of the Dark Ages.
This is unlikely to be true.
The Doric style was used in mainland Greece and spread
from there to the Greek colonies in Italy.
19. Ionic style : used in the cities of Ionia (now the west
coast of Turkey) and some of the Aegean islands.
More relaxed and decorative.
Doric style : more formal and austere.
Corinthian style : More ornate. A later development of
the Ionic.
These styles are best known through the three orders of
column capitals, but there are differences in most points
of design and decoration between the orders
