"Funeral Krater"

Greek

Geometric Period

"Olpe"

Greek

Orientalizing Period

"Temple of Hera I"

Greek

Arcahic

"Dying Warrior"

Greek

Archaic

"Peplos Kore"

Greek

Archaic Period

"Achilles and Ajax Playing a Game"

Greek

The Archaic Period

"Kritios Boy"

Greek

Early Classical Period

Riace "Warrior"

Greek

Early Classical

"Parthenon"

Greek

High Classical Period

"Doryphoros"

Greek

High Classical Period

"Porch of the Maidens, Erechtheion"

Greek

High Classical Period

"Grave Stele of a Little Girl"

Greek

High Classical Period

"Aphrodite of Knidos"

Greek

Late Classical Period

"Theatre at Epidauros"

Greek

Late Classical Greek

"Dying Gallic Trumpeter"

Greek

Hellenistic Period

"Nike of Samothrace"

Winged Victory

Greek

Hellenistic Period

"Venus de Milo"

Greek

Hellenistic Period

"Reclining Couple on a Sarchophagus from Cerveteri"

Etruscan

"Portrait Head of an Elder"

Roman

The Republic 

"Pont Du Gard"

Roman

The Republic

"Augustus of Primaporta"

Roman

Early Empire Period

"The Flavian Ampitheatre"

Colosseum

Roman 

Early Empire Period

Pantheon

Roman - High Empire

Greek

Geometric

Flat

Linear

Cycladic looking figures

Emotion shown

Registers

Styalized

Beginning of independent city states

First olympics started, PRIDE

Example work: Funerary Krater

Orientalizing

Greek

New Trade Systems to East

Near Eastern influence in ARt

Registers

Linear

More rounded/less geometric

More realistic

Styll styalized and stiff

Ability to make molds

Example piece:Olpe

Archaic Style

Greek

Beginning of harmony, balance, and beauty

Persepective

Minimal frieze/entablature

Pride

Movement not rigid

Symetrical

Weaker anatomy

Population growth

Demogratic ruling

Organization of city-states

Example artwork: Kore

Early Classical Style

Greek

Naturalism

Humanism as a philosophy and importance

Balance

Harmony 

Perfection/Idealized

Natural/Realistic

More relaxed postures

Contrapasto

Athens destroyed by Xerces. Sense of unification throught city states

Pytahtgrous: Rise of humanism

- Man is the measure of all things

- Importance of the individual

- Removing some of the control of the Gods

- Gods are like humans

Example artwork: Kritios Boy

Greek

Symetry and harmony

Bigger and more intense

Beauty emphacized

Human rationality and order 

Pericles: Rebuilding Greece

Delian league: Fear of persians unites the city-states

Athens becomes "capital" when treasury moves there

Example artwork: Parthenon

Example Artwork: Doryphorus

This work is in motion. Motion is significat to High Classical. In motion and alive. You can see what they are doing, and what they will be doing. Recognize death, but find importantance in life while living. 

Greek

Same style

Artwork example: Aphrodite of Knidos

Greek

Death of Alexander the Great

Melodramatic time

Drama 

Suffering

Wet Drapery in clothing

Massive

Emotional

Artwork example:Nike of Samothrace

Beatiful, wind and action, talent and aesthetically pleasing.

Etruscan

Independent City-States

Wealthy empire

Never taken over byt he Greeks

Barrel vaulting arch

Archaic-like Style

All three Greek Orders in their art. 

Artwork Examples:  Sarcophagus from Cervetri

Brutus

Roman

Group of people ruling 1 senate and 2 consuls

Check and balance, fearing one ruler

Strength and vitality through government and war

Classes: Patricians (wealthy) and plebians (poor/common)

Servititude to country

Admire/acknowledgre ancesters and heros

Verism

Realistic and truthful

Rounded Arch and keystone

Example artworks: Patrician Carrying Portrait Busts of two Ancesters

Roman

Verism

Idealized Body 

Propaganda and Authority 

Julius Ceasar takes Empire like position

Killed for taking too much power

Art as propaganda

Artwork examples:  Augustus of Primaporta

                     Ara Pacis Augustae

            Arch of Titus

Rome

Strength of Rome

Height of Power

Money for Urban Development and Public Works

Building of Forums

Verism still prominent

Strength

Focus on bodies, less ideal better anatomy

Example artworks: Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius           

Pantheon

Trajan's Collumn 

Roman

Commodus decreased value of coins causing inflation in Rome

Split of Rome by Diocletian

East and Western Roman Empires

Rise of Constantine and Christianity

Example artworks: Arch of Constantine

                   The Tetrarchs

Doric: Shaft sits on stylobate. Shaft is fluted. Heavier consisting of more weight and usually shorter. 

Ionic: More elongated proportions. Fluted and with fillets. Scrolled volutes on the capital. Usually consists of a sculptured or decorated frieze. 

Corinthian: Originally for use in interiors, than used on exteriors. Capital is more decorative with acanthus leaves. Even thinner and more delicate than the ionic. 

Example Artwork: Colosseum

Used mainly during Greek, Archaic time period.

Used to suggest that their subject was alive, and infused with a sense of well-being.

Being present in the moment

A celebration of life

Conscious

Aware

Experience more important than permanence

Example Artwork: The Dying Warrior from the pediment of the Temple of Aphaia

Greek ideal and standard for representing the human body throgh sculpture.

Combined ideals of skin type, body form, and facial features to create ond single ideal of physical perfection.

Polykleitos developed a Canon or rules for constructing the ideal human figure. 

Standard set of rules for ideal body, and stance including contrapasto

High Classical Greek

Example artwork: Spear Bearer (Doryphoros)

Strong emphasis on portraiture in Roman art

Possibly came from the creation of wax death masks as accurate likenesses of an individual.

An interest in the faithful reproduction of the immediate visual and tactile appearacen of the subject.

Truth in the age

Example artwork: Patrician Carrying Portrait Busts of two Ancestors

Roman Republic

Rounded arches displace their weight along the curving sides

Wedge pieces fit together until them meet at the top and are locked together with the addition of the keystone

The Arch conveys balance and proportions, as well as a sorty of rhythmic harmony.

Example artwork: The Pont du Gard

Roman Republic

Originally constructed for a civic purpose, the basilica plan will become the standard for christian churches.

Large, rectangular building with an extensive interior space. 

Served as a court of lsaw or imperial audience chambers

Central Nave

Two aisles and open galleries.

Upper nave (clerestory windows)

Apses allowed for symetry

Example artwork: Basilica Ulpia

High Empire

Four tetrarchs ruled the empire together.

Two for each half of Rome

Dioclesian split Rome in half in order to try to strengethen it. 

Rome as one capital

The other, Constantinople. 

Artwork Example: The Tetrarchs

The Late Empire