ARTS 149 1st Edition Lecture 15 Continuation of Greece Classical Period Art During High Classical Period Cont o Warrior Taking Leave of his Wife ca 440 BCE Achilles Painter High Classical Attic white ground lekythos Used to pour liquids during religious rituals Done by applying a white slip o Woman and Maid ca 450 BCE High Classical Style of Achilles painter Late Classical o Major events Peloponnesian War occurred Sparta takes over Thebes Pericles dies after 30 years as leader of Athens Phillip of Macedonia overtakes Greece in 338 BCE Alexander the Great begins ruling 336 BCE o Major themes Disillusionment Alienation Focus on individual and real world End of serene idealism Uses correct mathematical proportions perfect human statues and rational human order o Art During Late Classical Period Aphrodite of Knidos ca 350 340 BCE Late Classical Originally a bronze sculpture but was lost and now we see the roman marble copies Portrays the woman o Sensuous not erotic o Completely nude These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute New concept for Greek art typically female were not shown in nude Created by Praxiteles Shows Aphrodite before she goes to bathe Hermes and the infant Dionysos ca 340 BCE Temple of Hera Olympia Greece Originally a bronze sculpture Praxiteles created it Late Classical Period Apoxyomenos ca 330 BCE Originally was sculpted in bronze Created by Lysippos Aka Man Scrapping Himself o Athletic men would often clean off dirt and oil from their bodies using a scraping tool called strigil Shows a new cannon of proportions o Head is 1 8th of body size o Shows more slender figure Weary Herakles ca 400 BCE Late Classical Period Created by Lysippos Originally sculpted in bronze Battle of Issus ca 310 BCE Tessera Mosaic o Created from small cubes of colored stone or marble that were waterproof and often used for floors Created by philoxenos of Eretria Found in house of faun Pompeii Italy Shows alexander the greater challenging the Persian leader Darius who is defeated Theater at Epidauros Greece Designed by Polykleitos the Younger Floor plan o Orchestra the dancing place Also contained an altar for Dionysos o Cunei wedge shaped sections o Skene dressing rooms or prop rooms Corinthian Capitals o Late classical o Also created by Polykleitos the younger Hellenistic Period o Major events Spanned from Death of Alexander 323 BCE to defeat of Anthony and Cleopatra 31 BCE Generals divide the empire New Cosmopolitan world citizens of the world Greek becomes the international language Beginning of international trade o Major themes of Style Pronounced realism Expressiveness Experimentation of pose and drapery Individuality Embraces humanity Interests in emotions Expanded repertoire of people depicted o Art of Hellenistic Period Front of Altar of Zeus Pergamon Turkey ca 175 BCE Athena Battling Alkyoneos Frieze Gallic Chieftain Killing Himself and His Wife ca 230 220 BCE Originally sculpted in bronze Hellenistic Period Pergamon Turkey Possibly sculpted by epigonos Dying Gaul ca 230 220 BCE Originally sculpted in bronze Pergamon Turkey Hellenistic Period Nike of Samothrace ca 190 BCE Samothrace Greece Created in Marble Probably was for an important naval victory over Seleucid Venus de Milo ca 150 125 BCE Created by Alexandros of Antioch on the meander Melos Greece Sculpted in Marble
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