Professor Stephanie Smith
AH 1541

ART OF ANCIENT GREECE
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GEOMETRIC
EARLY CLASSICAL
ORIENTALIZING
HIGH CLASSICAL
ARCHAIC
LATE CLASSICAL
HELLENISTIC

 
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GEOMETRIC
Pyxis (cylindrical container)
earthenware, c. 760-735 BCE
height 11 1/4"; diameter 14 1/8"
Art Institute of Chicago

Vase from the Dipylon Cemetery, Athens
Terra-cotta, c. 750 BCE
height 42 5/8"
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Statuette of a Horse
Bronze, c. 750-700 BCE
height 7.9 cm
J. Paul Getty Musuem, Los Angeles, California
cf. Man and Centaur (Stokstad, fig. 5-7)
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ORIENTALIZING
Griffin protome
c. late 7th/early 6th century BCE
bronze with bone or ivory inlay, 8"
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (inv. no. 1994.38.1-2)
Painter of Vatican 73
Olpe (pitcher)
c. 650-625 BCE
terracotta, 10.2 cm (diameter)
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (inv. no. 85.AE.89)
Oinochoe (pitcher)
c. 640-630 BCE
terracotta, 23.5 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (inv. no. 64.14)
Statuette of Lyre Player and Companion
c. 690-670 BCE
bronze, 11.5 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (inv. no. 90.AB.6)
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ARCHAIC

The Brothers Cleobis & Biton, c. 600 BCE
Delphi, Greece
cf. Kouros (Stokstad, fig. 5-20)


Treasury of the Siphnians @ Delphi (sculptural details)
Apollo and Herakles (pediment frieze )
Ares, Aphrodite, Artemis, Apollo, and Zeus Watching Trojan War (east frieze)
Greeks and Trojans in Battle (east frieze)
marble, c. 530-525 BCE
Delphi, Greece
Temple of Hera II (so-called)
c. 460 BCE
Paestum, Italy

Peisistratides
Giant (top image) and Athena (bottom image) from the Athenian Acropolis Gigantomachy from the Old Temple
c. 525 BCE
marble
Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece (inv. no. 631)
'Kroisos' kouros
c. 520 BC from Anavysos (near Athens)
marble with remains of pigment. 6' 4"
National Museum, Athens, Greece (inv. no. 3851)
See other views of Kroisos in Stokstad (p. 170, fig. 5-21)
Antimenes Painter
Hydria (water vessel)
c. 520 BCE
Black-figure terracotta
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (inv. no. 1975.1)
Brygos Painter
Kylix (drinking vessel)
c. 490-480 BCE
Red-figure terracotta
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (inv. no. 86.AE.286)
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EARLY CLASSICAL
Blond Boy, c. 480 BC
found on Athenian Akropolis
height 24.5 cm
Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece
A Horse
c. 490 BC
marble, 113 cm
Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece (inv. no. 697)
Zeus and Ganymede (probably a central akroterion)
c. 470 BCE
terracotta
Olympia, Greece

Kalamis (possibly artist)
Poseidon (or Zeus) found off Cape Artemision in Euboea, Greece
c. 460 BCE
bronze, 209 cm
National Museum, Athens, Greece (inv. no. 15161)
Aischines Painter
White-ground lekythos
c. 475-450 BCE
terracotta, 11 x 3 1/2"
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (inv. no. 1925.397)
Brygos Painter
Rhyton in form of ram's head
c. 480-470 BCE
terracotta with slip decoration, 19 x 12.8 x 22.6 cm
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (inv. no. 1988.8)

Myron of Thebes
Diskobolos
c. 460-450 BCE
marble, lifesize
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
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HIGH CLASSICAL


Youth from Magdalensburg, c. 450-400 BCE
bronze, 183 cm high
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
cf. Polykleitas' Spearbearer (Doryphoros) (Stokstad, fig. 5-54)
Aphrodite Genetrix
c. 400 BC (this is, however, a Roman copy)
marble
Museo Archeologico, Naples

Panorama of Athens from Philapappus Hill (1984)
Propylaia (left), Parthenon (right), Erechtheion (under scaffolding)

View of Propylaia from back
Notice the projections on the outer wall where the surface was never finished. These projections were used to set up scaffolding and would be removed after the building was completed. This is a detail indicating that the building never was fully completed.



 



Parthenon (view from Philapappus Hill)
Kallikrates and Iktinos, 447-438 BCE

Detail: NW corner seen from NW: entablature, capitals, tops of columns

Metopes, pediment and frieze fragments now in The British Museum, London, England




Polykleitas
Spear Bearer (Doryphoros)
Roman copy after a Greek original of c. 450-440 BCE
marble 6' 6"
Museo Archeologico, Naples, Italy (inv. no. 6011
See other view of the Doryphoros in Stokstad (p. 195, fig. 5-54)
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LATE CLASSICAL

Agias of Pharsala (marble after bronze original)
Attributed to Lysippus (c. 350-300 BCE)
Delphi, Greece
cf. The Scraper (Apoxyomenos) (Stokstad, fig. 5-66)
Athlete from Ephesus
c. fourth century BCE
bronze, 191 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Austria, Vienna
Lysippus
Alexander the Great'c. 330 BCE
marble, 39 cm
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Skulpturensammlung, Dresden, Germany (inv. no. Herrmann 174)
Painter of the Wedding Procession
Panathenaic Prize Amphora w/Lid
3630-364 BCE
Black-figure terracotta
J. Paul. Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (inv. no. 93.AE.55)

Praxiteles
Hermes with the infant Dionysus
c. 350-330 BCE
marble, 7' 1"
Archeological Museum, Olympia
See the date given by Stokstad (p. 201, fig. 5-63). Fluctuations in dating result from uncertainty whether or not this is an original Greek work or a Roman copy 


Mausolos
from the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
c. 360 BCE
marble, 9' 10"
The British Museum, London, England
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Scopas
Battle of Greeks and Amazons
from the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
c. 359-351 BCE
marble, 35"
The British Museum, London, England
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HELLENISTIC

Dying Gaul, early 2nd c. BCE (copy). Museo Archeologico, Naples, Italy.
cf. Dying Gallic Trumpeter (Stokstad, fig. 5-79)

Barberini Faun
c. 220 BC
marble, 215 cm
Glyptothek, Munich, Germany


Battle of Gods and Giants
Altar of Zeus from Pergamon, Turkey
c. 166-156 BCE
marble, 7' 6"
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Antikensammlung, Berlin, Germany
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