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.  
   

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3. Remember  the  Persians?  
   Xerxes   Darius  
   

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18. Pericles  and  the  Rebuilding  of  the  Acropolis  
    

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19. Panathenaic  Procession  
    

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20. Parthenon  
    Picture  Gallery  
    Propylaia  
    Statue  of  Athena  
    Promachos  
    Erechtheion  
    Temple  of  
    Athena  
    Nike  
    Panathenaic  
    Procession  
    

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21. Parthenon  
    Picture  Gallery  
    Propylaia  
    Statue  of  Athena  
    Promachos  
    Erechtheion  
    Temple  of  
    Athena  
    Nike  
    Panathenaic  
    Procession  
    

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22. Propylaia
    

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23. *Propylaion: Monumental entrance to a sacred space or citadel
    

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25. Parthenon  
    Picture  Gallery  
    Propylaia  
    Statue  of  Athena  
    Promachos  
    Erechtheion  
    Temple  of  
    Athena  
    Nike  
    Panathenaic  
    Procession  
    

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27. Carya5d  
    

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30. Doric   Ionic  
    

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32. Metope
    

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38. =    (phi)  =  1  =  .6180  
    

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44. Phidian  ProporGons  and  the  Human  Form  
    

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49. The  Canon  of  Polykleitos  
    

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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.”  
    

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54. Contrapposto  
    Pythagorean  Table  of  Opposites  
     
     Finite        Infinite  
     Odd        Even  
     One      Many  
     Right        Lea  
     Rest      MoGon  
     Straight    Crooked  
     Light      Darkness  
     Good      Evil  
     Square      Oblong  
    

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55. The  Canon  of  Lysippos  
    

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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?    
    

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