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Greece: Early and High Classical periods
Krater from the Dipylon cemetery in Athens, Greece, ca. 740 BC
EXEKIAS, Achilles and Ajax playing a dice game, Athenian black-figure amphora, 540-530 BC. Found in Italy
Detail, Achilles and Ajax playing a dice game, by EXEKIAS. Athenian black-figure amphora, 540-530 BC. Found in Italy
EXEKIAS, Achilles and Ajax playing a dice game, Athenian black-figure amphora, 540-530 BC. Found in Italy
EUTHYMIDES, Three revelers, Athenian red-figure amphora, ca. 510 BC. Found in Italy
Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, warrior from east pediment (early 5th cent. BC)
Temple of Aphaia,Aegina, warrior from west pediment (late 6th cent. BC)
Kouros, Anavysos near Athens, ca. 530 BC
Kritios Boy, Athens, ca. 480 BC.Figure demonstrates contrapposto
Bronze statue of a warrior, found under the sea near Riace, Italy, ca. 460 BC
Kritios Boy, Athens, ca. 480 BC
Explanation of the “lost wax” process of bronze casting
Bronze statue of a warrior, found under the sea near Riace, Italy, ca. 460 BCE
MYRON, Diskobolos (Discus Thrower), Roman marble copy of a bronze original of ca. 450 BCE
POLYKLEITOS, Doryphoros (Spear Thrower), Roman marble copy from Pompeii, after a Greek bronze original of ca. 450 BC. The statue demonstrates Polykleitos’s Canon, a harmonic system of proportion.
Acropolis, Athens
Reconstruction drawing of the Athenian Acropolis
IKTINOS and KALLIKRATES, Parthenon (Temple of Athena Parthenos), Acropolis, Athens, 447-438 BCE
PHIDIAS, sculpture from Parthenon pediment
Parthenon
Temple of Aphaia
Erectheion, Acropolis, Athens, 421-405 BC
Porch of the Caryatids,Erectheion, Acropolis, Athens, 421-405 BC
Porch of the Caryatids,Erectheion, Acropolis, Athens, 421-405 BC
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