Early Classical Period ca. 480-450 B.C.E. Defeat of Persians, Use of Bronze Sculpture, more detail in sculpture

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Early Classical Period ca. 480-450 B.C.E.
Defeat of Persians, Use of Bronze Sculpture,
more detail in sculpture High Classical Period
ca. 450-400 B.C.E. Parthenon Erectheion,
Doric and Ionic Orders, Caryatids, Canon of
Polykleitos Late Classical Period ca.
400-323 B.C.E. Sparta beats Athens, Corinthian
Order, ends with the death of Alexander the
Great Praxiteles redefines Polykleitos figures
sculptures are created with a more 360-degree
interest Hellenistic Period ca. 330-31
B.C.E.
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Early Classical or Transitional Period
Greek city-states banded together and defeated
the Persians in 479 BCE This victory gave them a
self-confidence that accelerated their society
and art. Lasted until about 450 BCE
Kritios Boy, ca. 480 BCE
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Early Classical or Transitional Period
The use of HOLLOW-CASTING BRONZE developed toward
the end of the Archaic Period made for more
complex, detail poses.
Charioteer, ca. 470 BCE, Bronze.
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Early Classical or Transitional Period
Using bronze allowed such an extensive study of
the anatomy that it paved the way for the
achievements of the CLASSICAL period.
Riace Warrior, ca. 470-460 BCE, Bronze. With
Copper lips and nipples.
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Early Classical or Transitional Period
Poses like this could only be done with the
invention ofCONTRAPPOSTO
Zeus, from the sea off Cape Artemision. Greece,
ca 460-450BC
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High Classical or Golden Age Period
Lasted from about 450-400 BCE Sparta and Athens
became enemies ELGIN MARBLES Statue Pieces from
the Parthenon that Lord Elgin (Thomas Bruce)
recovered from ruins and sold to British
Government
The Parthenon, completed in 438 BCE. Sculptural
designs by PHIDIAS
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High Classical or Golden Age Period
LABEL ME, KIDS!
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High Classical or Golden Age Period
The Erechtheion, completed in 438
BCE.Architectural design by MNESIKLES
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High Classical or Golden Age Period
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PARTHENONDoric Order
ERECHTHIONIonic Order
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High Classical or Golden Age Period
PolykleitosWrote the treatiseCanon of
Polykleitos set of mathematical rules or laws
for human sculpture Doryphoros The
Spear-Bearer
Polykleitos, Doryphoros c450-440 BCE HIGH
CLASSICAL GREEK
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Late Classical Period
Lasted from about 400-330 BCE Sparta defeats
Athens in Peloponnesian War Greek Art still
flourishes with IONIC order, and even introduces
CORINTHIAN order for interiors Romans later
copied it
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Late Classical Period
PraxitelesDeveloped more extensive rules based
on Canon of Polykleitos (e.g. body is 8 heads
tall instead of 7) Hermes and Infant Dionysus
343 BCE Roman Copy
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POLYKLEITOS
PRAXITELES
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Late Classical Period
Praxiteles, Apollo Sauroctonos LATE CLASSICAL
GREEK
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Late Classical Period
PraxitelesAphrodite Taking a Bath 350-40
BCE Roman Copy
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Late Classical Period
PraxitelesAphrodite Taking a Bath 350-40
BCE Roman Copy
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Late Classical Period
Lysippos, Apoxyomenos (The Scraper) Roman copy
based on bronze original ca 320 BCE
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Time to Play WHAT IS THIS?
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The Parthenon, completed in 438 BCE.Sculptural
designs by PHIDIASHIGH CLASSICAL GREEK
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Kritios Boy ca. 480 BCE Early Classical Greek
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Riace Warrior ca. 470-460 BCE, Bronzewith Copper
lips and nipples. EARLY CLASSICAL GREEK
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Praxiteles Hermes and Infant Dionysus(Roman
Copy) 343 BCE Late Classical Period
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Charioteer ca. 470 BCE Bronze. EARLY CLASSICAL
GREEK
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Seated Khafre Gizeh, Egypt, Dynasty IV Ca
2520-2495 BC OLD KINGDOM EGYPT
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Kouros Greece ca. 600 BC ARCHAIC GREEK
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Gudea of Lagash 2141-2122 B.C.Neo-Sumerian period
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Nefertiti Tell el-Amarna, Egypt Dynasty
XVIIIAmarna Period 1353-1335
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Temple of Queen Hatshepsut Deir el-Bahri, Egypt,
Dynasty 17 NEW KINGDOM EGYPT
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Temple of Ramses IIAbu Simbel, Egypt Dynasty 19
Ca 1290-1224 BCE NEW KINGDOM EGYPT
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Standing Male Votive figure at the Temple of
Abu Early Sumerian c 2400-2200 BCE
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PraxitelesAphrodite Taking a Bath (Roman
Copy) Late Classical Period
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Exekias, Achilles and Ajax playing a dice game.
ca. 540 -530 BC ARCHAIC GREEK
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Zeus (from the sea off Cape Artemision) ca
460-450 BC EARLY CLASSICAL GREEK
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Kroisos ca. 530 BC ARCHAIC GREEK
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The Erechtheion, completed in 438
BCE.Architectural design by MNESIKLES HIGH
CLASSICAL GREEK
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Menkaure and Khamerernebty Gizeh, Egypt Dynasty
IV, ca 2490-2472 BC OLD KINGDOM EGYPT
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Peplos Kore Athens, Greece ca. 530 BC ARCHAIC
GREEK
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Akhenaton and Nefertiti, From the temple of
Amen-Re, Karnak, Egypt, Dynasty XVIII 1353-1335
BC AMARNA EGYPTIAN
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The Palette of King Narmer Hierakonpolis, Egypt,
Early Dynastic EGYPTIAN 3000-2920 BC
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Ti Watching a Hippopotamus Hunt Saqqara,
Egypt Dynasty V, ca 2450-2350 BC OLD KINGDOM
EGYPT
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Standard of Ur (Sumerian)c. 2400 2200 BCE
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Stele of Hammurabi BABYLONIAN c. 1780 BCE
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Fowling scene, from the tomb of Nebamun, Thebes,
Egypt, Dynasty XVIII, ca 1400-1350 BC NEW
KINGDOM EGYPT
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Stele of NaramSin AKKADIAN c. 2300-2200 BCE
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Last Judgment of Hu-Nefer Thebes, Egypt, Dynasty
19 1290-1280 BC NEW KINGDOM EGYPT
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Imhotep, Stepped Pyramid and mortuaryprecinct of
Djoser, Saqqara Egypt Dynasty III OLD KINGDOM
EGYPT
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Queen Tiye Dynasty XVIII AMARNA
PERIOD 1353-1335 BC
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PolykleitosDoryphoros (The Spear-Bearer) c450-4
40 BCE HIGH CLASSICAL GREEK
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Human-headed Winged Bull (Lamassu) Assyrian Reign
of Sargon II, 721-705 BCE
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Temple of Hera I Paestum, Italy ca. 550
BC ARCHAIC GREEK
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Ziggurat of UrSumerianAbout 2100 BCE
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Death Mask of Tutankhamen Thebes, Egypt, Dynasty
XVIII 1323 BC NEW KINGDOM EGYPT