11.8 Class Notes - Greek PDF

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The Agora of athens The Stoa of Attalos - Wealthy guy that appreciated education and was born in athens - Purpose of building- 24 shops - First enclosed shopping mall - Found just the foundation in 1900s - They rebuilt it, from the same plans, same quaryy - Mr. Rockerfeller payed for the rebuilding Greek Vases - Styles - Geometric - Funeral, battle scenes - Orientalized - Infulence from middle easy - Black Figure Ware - Black figures against redish background - Red Figure ware - Red figures against black background Types of vases (that we need to know for the test) - Amaphora - Liquid storage, transport - Kylix - Drinking!! - Paint face of god/goddess so they feel closer to them - Lekythos - Storage of oils & perfumes - Long neck so the liquid doesn’t evaporate - Hyria - Storage, transport of water - Krater - Mixing wine & eater Greek Sculpture - Geometric Sculpture - Extremely simple forms - Different limbs - Tubular limbs

Archaic Sculpture

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Frontal poses, hands clenched on fist Stiff, standing figures with one foot forward Influence from egyptian models Symmetrical balance Big bulging eyes Long stylized hair Archaic smile Always nude One foot forward Weight equally distributed on both knees

Females - Frontal poses - Big bulging eyes - Archaic eyes - Long stylized hair - Often arms placed rigid at sides making a fist - Always clothed - Can’t see shape of body Late Archaic Sculpture - Intro of contrapposto - Short hair - More realistic muscular structure Classical Sculpture - A great number of classical sculptures have disappeared - During wars they were melted down bronze for weapons - Limestone for cities - Perfection of the human form - Gr8 knowledge of anatomy - Use of drapery - People represented in motion - Use of contrapposto - Use of flowing drapery, revealing the anatomy of the female body underneath

Contrapposto - Stance of human body

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One leg bears the weight While the other leg is relaxed with a bent knee, making the statues axis shift

Charioteer of Delphi - Cast about 470 BC - Buried in earthquake in 373 bc - Idealization of human form - Use of drapery - Party of big sculpture complex - Head turns to one side - Eyes are made of glass, eyelashes are made of silver - Part of sculpture set, it was on a chariot and horses - Very detailed Poseidon (or Zeus) - 460 - 450 BC - Found at the bottom of the sea near northern Euboea - The arm was discovered in 1936 and the rest in 1928 - Poseidon rises his right arm in order to hurl his trident - If zeus he has a thunderbolt - We don’t know for sure what he had in his hand Youth of Marathon - Bronze 330 BC - Found in the sea @ the bay of Marathon - In the middle of the open palm of the left hand is a pin which indicates that something was attached to it -

Marathons are 26 miles because that is the distance between athens and marathon - Man who ran that to deliver news, then dropped dead

Young Warrior of Riace - Found in 1972 - Eyeballs made of bone - Colored class in eye sockets - Contrapposto - Pinkish lips - Idealized human body

Lost wax Technique - Method of casting metal like bronze - Wax mold is covered with clay and plaster then fired and leaving a hollow form

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Leaving more room for flexibility’

Heremes and Baby Dionysus - Praxiteles 4th C BC - Marble, remnany of red paint - Very smooth marble - Height is about 7 feet - Discovered in temple of Hera rubble - Thought that he had a bunch of grapes teasing baby dionysus Hellenistic Sculpture Aphrodite of Melos - Aka Venus de Milo - Sculpted by Alexandros - Erotic - Idealized Feminine Beauty - Believed to have outstretched arm holding an apple - Golden apple given to her by paris who judged the most beautiful over hera & athena - Beauty contest is the start of trojan war according to illasd Laocoon Group - Hellenistic - Facial expressions - Laocoon was a trojan priest - A story in the odyssey by homer - Dramatic agony expression movement Winged Nike of Samothrace - 190 - 200 BC - Commenerate Naval victory - Once sat on the prow of a sculupted ship - Animated and full of life - Wind swept clothing Temple of Zeus, Olypmia - 7 wonders of ancient world - Destoryed by earthquake or tsunamis Temple of Hera, Olypmia

Delphi

Temple of Apollo

- Theratre was the best way to eduate people Themes are timeless Greek Mosaics Pella - Est in N. Greece - Replaeed the ancient capital of aegae - Desgined in the Hippodamian plan -...