Transitional Early Classical Period Severe Style c' 480 450 BCE

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Transitional (Early Classical) PeriodSevere
Stylec. 480 450 BCE

• Architecture
• End of Persian invasions
• Mix of Doric Ionic
• Sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia
• Architect Libon of Elis
• Primary literary source Pausanias

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• East Pediment
• chariot race between Pelops and Oinomaos for
  Hippodamias hand

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• West Pediment
• Lapiths vs. centaurs at wedding of Peirithos

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• Metopes
• Hercules 12 labours

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• Interior cult statue
• Phidias
• Chryselephantine
• Nike
• Constantinople

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• Sculpture
• Kritios Boy, marble, c. 480 BCE, 86 cm,
  Acropolis Museum, Athens
• Diskobolos by Myron, Roman copy of Greek
  original, marble, c. 450 BCE, 1.55 m, Museo
  Nazionale delle Terme, Rome
• Angelitos Athena, marble, c. 480 BCE, 77 cm,
  Acropolis Museum, Athens

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• Artemision Zeus, bronze, c. 460 450 BCE, 2.09 m
  (2.10 m from finger to finger), National Museum,
  Athens
• Charioteer of Delphi, bronze with copper (lips
  and eyelashes), silver (headband), and onyx
  (eyes) c. 478 or 474 BCE, 1.80 m, Delphi Museum

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• Riace Bronzes A and B, bronze with copper lips
  and nipples, eyes inlaid, c. 460 450 BCE, 2.05
  m, National Museum, Reggio Calabria

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• Pottery
• Pan Painters bell krater of Artemis and Aktaion,
  Attic red figure, 42 cm, c. 470 - 460 BCE, Museum
  of Fine Arts, Boston
• Niobid Painter, Apollo and Artemis killing
  Niobes children, Attic red figure krater, 54 cm,
  c. 460 BCE, Louvre, Paris

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• Painting
• Tomb of the Diver, Poseidonia, S. Italy, c. 480
  BCE
• Symposium