The Parthenon

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 authorship, medium, approximate date, period designation (Minoan, Archaic Greek, etc.), original location, patronage, subject, function and meaning

Style: Classical Greek

Date: 447 - 432 BCE

• Dedicated to the goddess Athena
• Doric order with ionic elements (inside)
• Sculpture thought to be overseen by Phidis
• Temple of worship

Plan of a typical Greek Peripteral temple

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Elevations of the Doric and Ionic Orders

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Herakles wrestling Antaios

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 authorship, medium, approximate date, period designation (Minoan, Archaic Greek, etc.), original location, patronage, subject, function and meaning

Author: Euphronios

Date: Greek Archaic Period, 510 B.C.E.

Medium: Red figure technique on Calyx-Krater pottery

• Mimesis: Euphronios depicted how the human form is actually seen in real life
• Use of forshortening

Chariot race of Pelops and Oinaomaos

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 authorship, medium, approximate date, period designation (Minoan, Archaic Greek, etc.), original location, patronage, subject, function and meaning

• Early Classical Period
• ca. 470 - 457 BCE
• Excavated at Olympia
• Marble architecture in-the-round
• Over-life sized

Kritos Boy

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 authorship, medium, approximate date, period designation (Minoan, Archaic Greek, etc.), original location, patronage, subject, function and meaning

• Located in Athens
• Dated c. 485 - 480 BCE
• Between Late Archaic and early Classical Greek
• Contra pasto: asymmetry of weight
• Smaller than life-size

Artemission Zeus (or Posiodon?)

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 authorship, medium, approximate date, period designation (Minoan, Archaic Greek, etc.), original location, patronage, subject, function and meaning

• Found at the bottom of the sea off cape Artemision, N Euboea
• Early Classical Period
• one of the few preserved original works of the Severe Style, notable for the exquisite rendering of motion and anatomy
• Bronze cast

Diskobolos

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 authorship, medium, approximate date, period designation (Minoan, Archaic Greek, etc.), original location, patronage, subject, function and meaning

• Author: Myron
• c. 460 - 450 BCE.
• completed near the end of the Severe period

Doryphoros

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 authorship, medium, approximate date, period designation (Minoan, Archaic Greek, etc.), original location, patronage, subject, function and meaning

• Classical Greek
• Excavated at the Villa of the Papyri
• Original made of bronze, more well-known roman copy is made of marble
• contrapposto
• depicts a teacher

Iktinos and Kallikrates

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Athena Pathenos

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Centauromachy

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Panathenaic Festival Procession frieze

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Mnesikles

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Erechtheion

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Temple of Athena Nike

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Aphrodite of Knidos

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Hermes and the infant Dionysos

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Apoxyomenos (Scraper)

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Battle of Issus

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Choragic Monument of Lysikrates

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Paionios of Ephesos and Daphnis of Miletos

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Stoa of Attlos II

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Athena battling Alkyonesos

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Nike alighting on a warship

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Venus de Milo

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Sleeping satyr

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Seated boxer

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Laocoon and his sons

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Model of a typical Etruscan temple of the sixth century BCE

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Apulu (Apollo of Veii)

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