Greek Sculpture and Architecture

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Greek Sculpture and Architecture
Prognostication
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Greek Art

• Large concepts
• In what ways does classical Greek art represent
  the values of the society?
• What progress in the art of sculpting assisted in
  representing those values?
• What is Hellenistic art?
• What are some of the values of Classical art that
  are retained? What is different?
• Details Know kouros and kore, contrapposto,
  pediment, frieze, columns/capitals of each order,
  what adds to stability

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proportion

• Greek artists worked according to rules of
  proportion that they felt led to objects of
  beauty
• Polykleitos beauty lies in the proportions of
  all the fingers to the palm and the wrist, and of
  these to the forearm, and of the forearm to the
  upper arm and of all the other parts to each
  other
• Architecture had rules too. Doric plan had three
  rules 1. triglyph must be exactly over the
  center of each column 2. triglyph must be over
  the center of each space between the columns and
  3. triglyphs on the frieze must meet exactly at
  the corners

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Archaic Kouros and Kore
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Classical Sculpture
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The Discobolos
attributed to the sculptor Myron (flourished
about 470-440 BC
This is a Roman copy (marble) of a bronze
original lost. The head on this figure has been
wrongly restored, and should be turned to look
towards the discus.
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Temples Sculpture
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Orders Columns Capitals
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Entablatures
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Floor Plans
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Classical Architecture Parthenon
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Neoclassicism Jefferson Memorial
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Caryatids are female figures serving as supports.
The most likely derivation of their name is from
the young women of Sparta who danced every year
in honour of Artemis Karyatis ('Artemis of the
Walnut Tree'). This is one of six caryatids that
held up the roof of the temple on the Acropolis
known as the Erechtheum
The Erechtheum is at the Acropolis, Athens,
Greece, around 420 BC
Notice how the sculptor has created figures which
have a feeling of rigidity appropriate to their
function as columns, yet they also have a sense
of life.
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Marble block from the west frieze of the Temple
of Athena Nike , Acropolis, 420 BCE
The external frieze is made up of a series of
marble blocks carved with battle scenes on the
north a battle between Greeks, involving cavalry
on the south Greeks fighting opponents in
oriental dress, probably Persians on the east an
assembly of Greek gods. This block comes from
the west frieze, which features Greeks fighting
other Greeks.
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Hellenistic Art

• Adapting Greek Ideals and Aesthetics

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Neoclassical Painting David
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