Classical Greece

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1. Art  of  Classical  Greece   Reading:   Stokstad,  120-­‐147     Range:   480-­‐323  BCE   Early  Classical  |  High  Classical  |  Late   Classical     Terms/Concepts:   “Golden  Age,”  acropolis,  Persian   War,  Delian  League,  Athena,   Poseidon,  Panathenaic  Procession,   Panathenaic  FesGval,  symmetria,   canon  of  proporGons,  contrapposto,   caryaGd,  agora,     Monument  List:     5-­‐26,  KriGos  Boy,  Early  Classical,   c.  475  BCE     5-­‐42,  Polykleitos,  Doryphoros   (Spear  Bearer),  High  Classical  c.   450-­‐440  BCE.     5-­‐44,  Erechtheion,  Acropolis,   Athens.  High  Classical  430s-­‐406   BCE.         5-­‐36,  IkGnos  and  Kallikrates.    The   Parthenon.  Acropolis,  Athens,   High  Classical,  447-­‐432  BCE.       5-­‐53,  Lysippos,  Apoxyomenos   (The  Scraper),  Late  Classical,   350-­‐325  BCE.  
3. Remember  the  Persians?   Xerxes   Darius  
18. Pericles  and  the  Rebuilding  of  the  Acropolis  
19. Panathenaic  Procession  
20. Parthenon   Picture  Gallery   Propylaia   Statue  of  Athena   Promachos   Erechtheion   Temple  of   Athena   Nike   Panathenaic   Procession  
21. Parthenon   Picture  Gallery   Propylaia   Statue  of  Athena   Promachos   Erechtheion   Temple  of   Athena   Nike   Panathenaic   Procession  
22. Propylaia
23. *Propylaion: Monumental entrance to a sacred space or citadel
25. Parthenon   Picture  Gallery   Propylaia   Statue  of  Athena   Promachos   Erechtheion   Temple  of   Athena   Nike   Panathenaic   Procession  
27. Carya5d  
30. Doric   Ionic  
32. Metope
38. =    (phi)  =  1  =  .6180  
42. 1   .618  
44. Phidian  ProporGons  and  the  Human  Form  
48. a   b  
49. The  Canon  of  Polykleitos  
50. “but  beauty,  he  thinks,  does  not  reside  in  the  proper   proporGon  of  the  elements  but  in  the  proper  proporGon   of  the  parts,  such  as  for  example  that  of  finger  to  finger   and  all  these  to  the  palm  and  base  of  hand,  of  those  to   the  forearm,  of  the  forearm  to  the  upper  arm  and  of   everything  to  everything  else,  just  as  described  in  the   Canon  of  Polykleitos.  For  having  taught  us  in  that  work   all  the  proporGons  of  the  body,  Polykleitos  supported   his  treaGse  with  a  work  of  art,  making  a  statue   according  to  the  tenets  of  the  treaGse  and  calling  it,  like   the  treaGse  itself,  the  Canon.  So  then,  all  philosophers   and  doctors  accept  that  beauty  resides  in  the  due   proporGon  of  the  parts  of  the  body.”  
54. Contrapposto   Pythagorean  Table  of  Opposites      Finite        Infinite    Odd        Even    One      Many    Right        Lea    Rest      MoGon    Straight    Crooked    Light      Darkness    Good      Evil    Square      Oblong  
55. The  Canon  of  Lysippos  
58. CriGcal  Thinking  QuesGons   1.  What  place  does  the  “High  Classical”  have  in  the   field  of  art  history?    How  is  this  place   problemaGc?   2.  What  was  the  impact  of  the  480  BCE  sack  of   Athens  on  the  sculpture  and  architecture  of  the   5th  century  CE?   3.  Describe  the  difference  between  the  canons  of   Polykleitos  and  Lysippos.       4.  How  is  the  pracGce  of  Roman  copying  both  a   help  and  a  hindrance  to  archaeologists?