160 years,

Defeat of Persians in 479 BCE

Death of Alexander the Great 323BCE

3 Parts, Early, 5th and 4th century

Humanism, realism, and idealism

Observations than from memory

Title: Reconstruction drawing of the west pediment of the Temple of Zeus, Olympia

Date: 470–460 BCE

Early classical Period

Doric Temple to Zeus in Olympia

Apollo helping Lapiths defeat the centaurs.

Fight started over women

How is Apollo different then the other?

Title: Apollo with Battling Lapiths and Centaurs

Medium: Marble

Size: height of Apollo 10'8" (3.25 m)

Date: c.470– 460 BCE

How is Apollo different then the other?

Title: Athena, Herakles, and

Atlas

Medium: Marble

Size: height 5'3" (1.59 m)

Date: c. 460 BCE

Source/Museum: Metope

relief from the frieze

Relief?

Herakles (believed to be the

founder of the olympic

games) hold sky up for

Atlas, with the help of

Athena.

Contrast in Views?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88gXWW3qN7o

Title: Kritian Boy

Medium: Marble

Size: height 3'10" (1.17

m)

Date: c. 480 BCE

From Acropolis of

Athens

Slight turn of head

invited viewer around

Transitional figure

Pair Share

Title: Charioteer

Medium: Bronze, copper (lips and lashes),

silver (hand), onyx (eyes)

Size: height 5'11" (1.8 m)

Date: c. 470 BCE

Hollow casting-similar to lost-wax casting

Buried during a 373 BCE earthquacke

Displaying makes a difference

Details of the FEET!

Title: Warrior A (back)

Medium: Bronze with bone and

glass eyes, silver teeth, and copper

lips and nipples.

Size: height 6'9" (2.05 m)

Date: c. 460–450 BCE

Source/Museum: Found in the

sea off Riace, Italy

Found in the sea in 1972

Youthful body mature face

Eye ball are of bone and colored

glass

Lips and nipples pinkish bronze

Once held?

Artist: Myron

Title: Discus Thrower (Diskobolos)

Medium: Marble

Size: height 5'11" (1.55 m)

Date: Roman copy after the original bronze of

c. 450 BCE

Original was bronze

Caught at critical moment

Snapshot.

How does he differ that other statues we

have seen?

http://video.pbs.org/video/980040228/

450-400 BCE

Peloponnesian Wars

Athens is an acropolis- City on a hill

Athens had ring walls and agora- marketplace

Title: Athens: Acropolis from the Air

480 BCE Persians destroy the acropolis

Pericles convinces Athenians to rebuild

Title: Model of the Acropolis, Athens

Date: c. 447–432 BCE

Athena Nike Athena Promachos Artemis Brauronia

Proplyaia- gateway Athena Parthenos Erechitheion

Artist: Kallikrates and Iktinos

Title: Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens. View from the northwest

Medium: Pantelic marble

Date: 447–432 BCE

Doric Temple 447 BCE work resumes

Entasis columns

Artist: Alan LeQuire

Title: Athena, the

Parthenon, Nashville

Tennessee. Recreation of

Pheidias’s Huge Gold and

Ivory Figure.

Size: height 41' 10"

Date: 1982–1990

Phidias began his work around 447 BCE it was damaged by a fire about 165 BCE but repaired.

It continued to stand in the Parthenon in the fifth century CE, when it may have been lost in another fire. An account mentions it in Constantinople in the tenth century, however

Artist: William Pars

Title: The Parthenon When it Contained a Mosque

Has been a

•Christian Church dedicated to the virgin Mary

•Islamic mosque

•Turkish /munitions storage facility

•Archaeological site

•Major Tourist Attraction

Title: East pediment of the Parthenon

Medium: Marble

Size: The pediment is over 90 feet (27.45 m) long; the central space of about 40 feet (12.2 m) is

missing

Date: c. 447–432 BCE

Birth of Athena-

Left Side- 3 goddess, reclining nude(Maybe Hercules, Maybe Dionysus)

Iris the messenger of the gods standing

Title: East pediment of the Parthenon

Medium: Marble

Size: The pediment is over 90 feet (27.45 m) long; the central space of about 40 feet (12.2 m) is

missing

Date: c. 447–432 BCE

3 female figures- once thought to be the 3 fates

Now it is believed they are the goddess, Hestia, Aphrodite, Dione

Thomas Bruce Earl of Elgin “Eligin Marbles”

Title: Lapith Fighting A

Centaur

Medium: Marble

Size: height 56" (1.42 m)

Date: c. 447–432 BCE

Doric Frieze

92 Metrope Reliefs of Battle

scenes

“X”

Fluid motions

Man's Triumph

Represents hard muscle soft

flesh

Title: Horsemen

Medium: Marble

Size: height 41¾" (106 cm)

Date: c. 447–432 BCE

Source/Museum: Detail of the Procession, from the Ionic frieze on the north side of the

Parthenon / The British Museum, London.

Ionic Frieze – represents a ceremony

Men ride atop strong horses

with graceful but physically study walkers.

Represents Athens as a healthy, independent, by governed by a democracy who recieves

favors from the gods

Title: Horsemen

Medium: Marble

Size: height 41¾" (106 cm)

Date: c. 447–432 BCE

Part of the precession Frieze, women as tall as horse, wrong propportions

Top in high relief then bottom of sculpture

Blue background, red and yellow clothes

Title: Erechtheion. View from the east. Porch of the maidens at left; north porch can be seen

through the columns of the east wall

Date: 421–406 BCE

2nd largest building in Acropolis

Dedicated to many god’s- houses Poseidon's rock

Scared Spring of Erechtheus (former king of Athens) Influenced by Demeter

½ man ½ serpent, Kekrops, founded Athens judge of Poseidon and Athena

Title: Porch of The Maidens (South

Porch), Erechtheion

Medium: n/a

Size: n/a

Date: Temple 430s–406 BCE; porch c.

420–410 BCE

3 porches, east, south, and north

North Porch- Ionic

South porch, porch of the Madiens

6 Caraytids, doric capital but ionic

entablature

3 and 3 leg bends

Weakest point?

Artist: Kallikrates

Title: Temple of Athena Nike

Date: c. 425 BCE

425 bce

Ionic Order- Amphiprostyle- porch at each end

Porch facing city is blind- no entrance to cella

surrounded by a parapet- low faced wall

Title: Nike (Victory) Adjusting Her Sandal

Medium: Marble

Size: height 3' 6" (1.06 m)

Date: Last quarter of the 5th century (perhaps 410–

405) BCE

Winged figures named “Victories”

From Parapet

Gracefully bends, chiton slips of shoulder,

Texture appears delicate a light, wet silk

“discreetly erotic image”

Artist: Polykleitos

Title: Spear Bearer (Doryphoros), also known as Achilles

Medium: Marble (tree trunk and brace strut are Roman additions)

Size: height 6'11" (2.12 m)

Date: Roman copy after the original bronze of c. 450–440 BCE

The Canon of Polykleitos- rules that constructed the perfect

human form

Relationships of body parts, tension vs. relaxation.

Relationships in weight building

Contrapposto- cross-balancing of supporting and free elements

Upper body supported on one leg

Movement vs stationary

Tension