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Chigi Vase
Date:650 bc,Rome (large tomb in etruscan italy),-orientalizing period
Visuals:
-Uses layering of figures to create 3d space
-3 colors, black, red-purple, and yellow-brown
-black figure style
Historical context:
-used in symposiums (men's drinking parties)
-depicts an idealized male life (hunting, fighting in war, slaying big animals)
-an early example of the depiction of setting/location (notice the plants in the hunt scene)
-depicts hoplite warfare
-is protocorinthian, so likely exported to italy from corinth |
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Dipylon Amphora
Date: 750 bc-Kerameikos at Athens-Geometric
Visuals:
-Uses Horror Vacui
-Very simplistic figures, no details of clothing or facial features
-Depicts funeral, a Prothesis where the deceased lies surrounded by mourners
Historical Context:
-is a grave good
-large in size, depicts the elite status of deceased
-for a woman's burial |
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dipylon krater
Date: 750 bc-Kerameikos at Athensgeometric
Visuals:
-Uses Horror Vacui
-Shows a funeral procession in two registers
-Depicts funeral, a Prothesis where the deceased lies surrounded by mourners
-the simple figures have slightly more detail than the dipylon amphora, with dots for eyes, hair.
Historical context:
-for the tomb of a man (grave good) |
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lefkandi centaur
Date: end of tenth century bc,Lefkandi-Geometric
Visuals:Simple forms, covered in geometric patterns
Historical context:
-is a votive
-from a cemetery
-Horse-body made in technique similar to
vases
-Surface decoration consists of a series
of lines, triangles, cross-hatching
-One of the earliest examples of a
character from myth in Greek art
-Sometimes identified with Cheiron the
kind centaur who tutored Greek heroes
like Achilles |
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Mykonos pithos
Date:675-650 bc,Mykonos,orientalizing period
Visuals:
-depicts sack of troy, a Trojan horse on the neck, with small windows showing soldiers inside, handing weapons to other greeks
-lower registers show greeks attacking trojans, including women, children
Historical context:
-likely used as a storage vessel then re-purposed as a coffin |
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Siphnian Treasury
Date:530-525 bc, ionic, delphi
Visuals:
-has a rectangular interior called a Naos or Cella
-Has caryatid columns (women figures as columns)
-Used to be painted different colors
-relief sculpture on pediment showing heracles and apollo fighting for a delphic tripod
-relief sculpture on frieze depicts a council of gods on one side, a trojan war battle between memnon and achilles on the other
-some figures are in three-quarters pose
-uses layering of figures to create space
-has six acroteria, statues on the roof
Historical context:
-built with revenues from the silver mines on the island of Siphnos
-the gods in the frieze are debating whether memnon or achilles will win
-the frieze was made by two different artists at the same time, yet one part of it seems older than the other stylistically, which shows that the evolution of style to reach a more naturalistic state is not always linear. |
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statues of kleobis and biton
Date:570 bc, archaic, delphi
Visuals:
-youthful, nude male figures, reflecting ideal form
-as typical for kouri, one step forward and braided hair
Historical context:
-Kouros
-votive
-they are brothers who harnessed themselves on a wagon instead of using animals, and pulled their mother in a cart 5 miles to the temple of hera for a festival. The mom wanted them to receive a high honor, so the brothers died in their sleep and remained forever in their youthful state. (Youth is the most idealized form) |
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Temple of Artemis at korfu
early 6th century bc, archaic
korfu, greece
doric
you know its archaic because they just make the figures smaller to fit inside the pediment, no realstic sense of scale, apotropaic, archaic hairstyle, slylistic body shape, not mimetic, swastika position, symbolic |
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temple of aphaia at agaena
doric, mid 5th century bc, found at aegina
one pediment has archaic style, other has severe style, both use positioning of characters to fit into pediment, shows sack of troy, athena at the center |
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Temple of Apollo at Thermon
mid to late 7th century bc
Plan is long rectangular naos, peripteral columns, doric style |
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| Suicide of Ajax, black-figure amphora by Exekias, mid 6th century BCE |
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| Sack of Troy, red-figure hydria, ca. early 5th century BCE |
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| The Riace Warriors, Bronze with copper details, ca. mid 5th century BCE |
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| Nikandre’s kore, Delos, mid 7th century bc, marble |
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| The “Kritios” Boy, the Akropolis of Athens, ca. early 5th century BCE, marble |
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| Kore of Phrasikleia, Athens, marble, mid 6th century BCE |
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| Hero with lion, imported (?) ivory figurine from Delphi, early to mid 7th centuy BCE |
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| Herakles and Antaios, Attic red-figure krater attributed to Euphronios, c. late 6th century BCE |
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| The François Vase, Attic, black-figure krater, mid-early 6th century BCE |
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| Terracotta urn with anthropomorphic lid, early 7th century BCE, Etruscan |
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| Couple sarcophagus from Cerveteri, early 6th century BCE, Terracotta |
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| Statue of Apollo from the Temple at Veii, Terracotta |
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| “Anavysos” kouros, early-mid 6th century BCE, marble |
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| Achilles and Ajax playing a dice game, black-figure amphora by Exekias, mid 6th century BCE |
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