Ancient%20Greek%20Art%20and%20Architecture

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Ancient Greek Art and Architecture
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Greek Architecture

• Parthenon
• Acropolis
• Statue of Athena
• Public buildings
• Columns
• Marble
• Frieze

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Greek Columns

• Greeks developed three different orders
• Doric Ionic 6th century BCE
• Corinthian 5th century BCE further developed and
  used by Romans

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The Stoa viewed from the Agora with Acropolis in
background
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The Erechthion with the porch of the Caryatids
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The Parthenon
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Greek Art

• Influenced by Phoenician styles more swirls and
  less geometric

Black figure amphora, Archaic period, British
Museum
Red figure plate 520 BCE
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Sculpture

• Concept of the ideal beautiful, life like,
  youthful, calm
• Depictions of gods
• Statues of nude male forms, clothed female forms
  - detailed and proportional
• New research indicates statues were brightly
  coloured

The Charioteer of Delphi
Archer from Temple of Aphaia 490 BC
Detail from Alexander Sarcophagus 320 BCE
Lion of Loutraki
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Gods and Goddesses
Nike, goddess of Victory, Louvre
Laocoon, Trojan priest and sons being strangled
by a sea serpent, 1st century AD, Vatican Museum
Venus de Milo, Louvre, 130 BCE