1 The Greek World. EARLY GREECE ARCHAIC PERIOD CLASSICAL: Early High Late HELLENISTIC 2.

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The Greek World

EARLY GREECE

ARCHAIC PERIOD

CLASSICAL:Early High Late

HELLENISTIC

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Figure 5.1 Geometric krater, from the Dipylon cemetery, Athens, Greece, ca. 740 BCE. Approx. 3’ 4 1/2” high. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Meander: key patternAround the relief-Horizontal bands withAbstract angular motifs

No depthFrontal eyesFlat Silhoettes No sense of real space

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Figure 5.2 Hero and centaur (Herakles and Nessos?), ca. 750–730 BCE. Bronze, approx. 4 1/2” high. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Stiff but deliberately Proportioned…Hierarchy of scale?

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Figure 5-3 Mantiklos Apollo, statuette of a youth dedicated by Mantiklos to Apollo, from Thebes, Greece, ca. 700–680 BCE. Bronze, approx. 8” high. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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Figure 5.4 Corinthian black-figure amphora with animal friezes, from Rhodes, Greece, ca. 625–600 BCE. Approx. 1’ 2” high. British Museum, London.

Corinthian Period:Influenced by the East:

Black figure painting

Incised with details

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Figure 5-7 Lady of Auxerre, statue of a goddess or kore, ca. 650–625 BCE. Limestone, approx. 2’ 1 1/2” high. Louvre, Paris.

Daedalus was a great artist rumored To have built the labyrinth…heEven worked in Egypt…

How can you tell? This was a compliment paid to him to have a styleNamed for him…

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Figure 5-7 Alternate ViewTotal from front center

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