ARTH 151 Classical Greek Art & Architecture

Title: Kritios Boy Artist/Maker: Period/Date: Location: Acropolis, Athens
Medium: Marble Subject:
Significance: sculpture in the round, weight shift, kouroi, noticeable curve in his spine conters the slight shifting of his hips and the subtle drop of one of his shoulders, we see the beginnings of contrapposto (the convention of presenting standing figures with opposing alternations of tension and relaxation around a central axis that will dominate classical art

Title: Charioteer Artist/Maker: Period/Date: Location: Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi
Medium: Bronze, copper (lips and lashes), silver (hand), onyx (eyes). Subject:
Significance: sculpture in the round, kore, the face is highly idealized, action scene

Title: Warrior Artist/Maker: Period/Date: Classical Greece Location: Found in the sea off Riace, Italy
Medium: Bronze with bone and glass eyes, silver teeth, and copper lips and nipples Subject:
Significance: sculpture in the round, kore, weight shift, reveals striking balance between the idealized smoothness of ‘perfect’ anatomy conforming to early classical standards and the reproduction of details observed from nature, such as the swelling in the veins in the back of the hands

Title: Flocking Satyrs Artist/Maker: Douris Period/Date: Classic Greece Location:
Medium: Ceramic Subject:
Significance: groundline, register, red figure on black background, wine cooler, made to float in a krater

Title: Parthenon Artist/Maker: Kallikrates and Iktinos Period/Date: Classic Greece Location: Athens Greece
Medium: Pentelic Marble Subject:
Significance: doric order, ratio of 4:9 expressing the relationship of breadth to length and also the relationship of column diameter to space between columns, the columns have a subtle swelling (entasis) and tilt inward slightly from bottom to top, the corners are strengthened visually by reducing the space between columns at those points

Title: the Goddess from the pediment of the parthenon Artist/Maker: Period/Date: Classic Greece Location: Parthenon
Medium: Marble Subject:
Significance: sculpture in the round, wet draping, even though ‘covered’ you can still see the anatomy of the human body

Title: Lapith fighting centaur Artist/Maker: Period/Date: Classic Greece Location: South side of Parthenon
Medium: Marble Subject:
Significance: possibly a relief sculpture, once again showing the anatomy of the human body, kouros (nude young athletic male), shows the human body in action (action scene)

Title: Pheidias’ huge gold and ivory figure Artist/Maker: Pheidias Period/Date: Classic Greece Location:
Medium: Gold and Ivory Subject:
Significance: statue of athena, sculpture in the round, ionic order column, stylobate,

Title: Spear Bearer Doryphoros Artist/Maker: Polykleitos Period/Date: classical Greece Location:
Medium: Marble Subject:
Significance: sculpture in the round, weight shift, starting to display the musculature of the human body/anatomy

Classical Greek Art and Architecture