Getlein Chapter 14 Living with Art - The Classical World: Greece

Ancient Rome: timeframe and location

510 B.C.E. - 500 C.E. Location is Rome....

Krater

A vessel for wine. Commonly used as a grave marker.

Parthenon

Another Example of Classical Art

Some of the earliest freestanding sculptures of the Archaic period were kouros figures, or blocky statues of nude young men, all with a conventionalized facial expression called the _

Archaic smile

Archaic: Classical: Hellenistic

Archaic: 6th century B.C.E. So called Archaic because what would later be leading characteristics is seen in their early form. Classical: 480- 323 B.C.E Art from this time is considered to be the finest of the finest. Hellenistic: Started with Alexander's death in 325 B.C.E. Refers to the spread of Greek culture.

Greek sculpture: materials, subject matter, style

Bronze was the favored material, virile naked men was their favorite subject matter, and their style was naturalistic.

The contrast of textures and fluidity and spontaneity of movement found in the Parthenon's pediment grouping called The Three Goddesses were created during the _____ period of sculpture.

Classical

Parthenon

Dedicated to the goddess Athena parthenon is a Doric style temple with columns all around the exterior. Decorated by sculptures.

Laocoon (Hellenistic)

Dynamic poses and extreme emotions in this period/full realization of the human form and expression

Kourous

Example of Archaic art

Riace Warrior (Warrior A)

Example of Classical art

Laocoon

Example of Hellenistic Art

Colosseum

Extraordinary feat of architecture and engineering, used for distraction and bloody gladiatorial entertainment

Bronze

Favored material for Greek sculpture.

If a krater/vase found near the entrance to ancient Athens depicts a scene of mourners and has a hole punched through the base, which of the following purposes might the vessel have served?

Grave Marker

Hellenistic: subject matter and style

Height of Greece. Introduction of the female nude and extreme emotions.

This sculpture from the Hellenistic period, illustrates that period's preoccupation with high drama, unleashed passion, and theatrical excess.

Laocoon Group

Acropolis

Literally means "High Hill"

Greek sculptural Naturalism

Many statures were of the gods. The more belivable the statue the more present the diety seemed.

Pompeii

Mt. Vesuvius (79 C.E.) kindly created a time capsule for us. Pompeii revealed that the Romans (or immigrant Greeks) were equally masterful painters.

Riace Warrior or Warrior A (Classical)

Much more naturalistic human form/emphasized balance and restraint

Parthenon (Classical)

Pinnacle of Greek Architecture

Classical

Refering to Greece and Rome.

Roman attitude towards Greek art

Romans greatly admired Greek art and imitated their style. Romans liked realistic approaches to art.

Kouros or Kritian (definition not example)

Sculpture of an anonymous nude man or boy.

Kourous (Archaic)

Stiff form borrowed from Egyptians

Hellenistic

The last phase of Greek sculptural art.

Idealism

The perfect human body.

• Archaic • Classic • Hellenistic

Three different periods of art in Greece?

Contrapposto

an asymmetrical arrangement of the human figure in which the line of the arms and shoulders contrasts with while balancing those of the hips and legs. Greeks invented it in sculpture.

The Greek word for young man is ___________.

kouros