Differences?

Archaic Hellenic Hellenistic

Greek Art & ArchitectureHellenic to Hellenistic

Greek Archaic period• Influenced by Minoans &

Mycenaean

–Mosaics

–Frescos

–Pottery

–Sculpture

• Figures in profile, but correctly drawn – not like the Egyptians

The Kore / Korai

7th century

Archaic Bas Relief sculpture

pottery

Classical Hellenic

• Greek ideal – harmony, beauty, perfection – the “ideal”

• The Golden Mean / golden ratio

• Relief sculpture in triangle – to fit pediment

frieze

•Myron – The Discus thrower

-tension-energy-power-ideal of the athlete

Female Nude“Dying Naobi”

Busts of Leonidas & Pericles

The Athenian Acropolis

The Parthenon

Doric order

Athena – recreation

one was in the Parthenon

Phidias

Ionic Order

Great Altar of Zeus

Temple of Athena Nike

Erechtheion

Relief Sculpture from Temple

Aphrodite

Praxiteles?

Contra posto

Hellenistic Period• Perfect technique applied to

exaggerated pain

• Extreme of everything

• Harmony & perfection becomes emotion and “reality”

• Reflects cultural diffusion and loss of ideal

Dying Gaul

Dying Gaul - detail3rd century BCE

Nike of Samothrace

Aphrodite of Melos2nd century

aka “Venus de Milo”

Laocoon and his sons

c. 175-150 BC

Old Market Woman