The Archaic Period

The Archaic Period

620 to 490/80 BCE

Temple Architecture – use computer or book to define

1. stylobate

2. fluting

3. capital

4. volute

5. Doric order

6. Ionic order

7. pediment

8. frieze

9. peripteral

10.naos/cella

Peripteral is a temple that has a single row of columns around it’s perimeter.

Cella (or Naos) – Central room in a temple.

Temple of Hera I, Paestum, Italy 550 BCE

Freestanding Sculpture

• Lifesize or larger, these sculptures would be standing or in stride with one foot in front of the other.

• Brightly painted (even though we can’t see it anymore)

• Kore: female statue• Kouros: male statue• Similar to EGYPTIAN SCULPTURE

• Standing Kouros (meaning youth)

• 580 BCE, Marble• Echoes Egypt • Hair is patterned with

consistent knots. STYLIZED• Archaic smile – alive & in

good health (possibly technically difficult to carve smile on shape of head)

• Rigid• Striding• Idealized

• Kroisos Kouros• Cemetery at

Anavysos, Athens• 530 BCE, Marble• Powerful, round

body• A continual

interest in artist’s rendering the human body with more detail

• Stride, arms, fists, hair, and archaic smile

• Peplos Kore• Acropolis, Athens• 530 BCE, Marble• peplos: garment,

draped rectangular cloth

• Motionless, vertical, stylized hair

• fluting

Archaic Vase Painting

During the Archaic period, Athens = center for manufacture and trade for pottery.

Athens adopted the Corinthian black-figure style.

TYPES OF VASES

• Amphora from the Greek "To carry on both sides." was used for storage and was a large vessel (also called the belly amphora)

• Krater – Mixing bowl (ex: the Geometric Krater….but this one had no bottom and most have enclosed bottoms.

• https://goo.gl/ZjxI9f

• Euphronios was a student of Exekias (one of the first Greek red figure vase painters).

• Euphronios interested in depicting human figure as it is seen taking up real space, very different from what we have seen thus far.

• Twisted composition helps with struggle and motion of figures• Calyx Krater – used to hold wine.

Herakles wrestling Antaios (detail of an Attic red-figure calyx krater), by EUPHRONIOS,

from Cerveteri, Italy, ca. 510 BCE

• P______ K____ (530 BCE) references a c________ with rigidity and linearity.

• P_________ is a temple that has a single row of columns around it’s perimeter.

• Columns rest on a s__________, aka the top step of a temple.

• The n______, or c______, is the central room in a Greek temple.

• A p________ is the triangular top section on the e______ and w______ side of a temple.

• The R________ F_______ T________ was a common form of Greek P ______.

Peplos Korecolumn

Peripteral

stylobate

naos cella

pedimenteast west

Red Figure technique Pottery

• K______ is a standing nude male statue.

• K_____ is a draped female statue.

• A new physical feature depicted in Greek sculpture is an A______ S_____ which has the meaning of being A_____ and in good H_____.

kouros

kore

Archaic Smile

Alive Health

NAME 3 GREEK ARCHAIC

SCULPTURES/1 ARCHITECTURE

NAME SPECIFIC DETAILS ABOUT THE SCULPTURE

LIST NAME & FACTS FOR THE GREEK ARCHAIC

VASE

1. 1. 1.

2. 2. 2.

3. 3. 3.

4. 4. 4.

5. 5.

WRITE 5 FACTS/READ EACH TITLE FOR DIRECTIONS

WRITE 5 FACTS/READ EACH TITLE FOR DIRECTIONS

Archaic Greek Homework: Temple Architecture –

PRINT, CUT OUT EACH WORD, AND PASTE TO AREA ON PICTURE – TRY TO DO THIS WITHOUT THE BOOK OR NOTES!

1. stylobate

2. fluting

3. capital

4. volute

5. Doric order

6. Ionic order

7. pediment

8. frieze

9. peripteral

10.naos/cella