ARTS 149 1st Edition Lecture 15Continuation 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 Classicalo 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 BCEo 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 womano Sensuous, not erotico Completely nudeThese 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 Himselfo Athletic men would often clean off dirt and oil from theirbodies 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 Mosaico Created from small cubes of colored stone or marble thatwere 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 plano Orchestra – the dancing place Also contained an altar for Dionysoso Cunei – wedge shaped sectionso Skene – dressing rooms or prop-rooms- Corinthian Capitalso Late classical o Also created by Polykleitos the younger - Hellenistic Periodo 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 tradeo 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
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