Greek Sculpture

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Greek Sculpture
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Greek Sculpture

• Two Enduring Understandings about Greek
  sculpture
• Greek sculpture demonstrates a discernable
  pattern of development that we can categorize
• A specific vocabulary can be used to describe
  Greek sculpture

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Objectives

1. Identify periods of Greek sculptural development.
   
2. Define vocabulary to describe sculpture.
3. Apply period names and vocabulary terms to
   analysis of example sculptures.

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A Pattern of Development

• Enduring Understandings about Greek sculpture
• 1. Greek sculpture demonstrates a discernable
  pattern of development that we can categorize

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A Pattern of Development
Evolution of the Kouroi to the Kritios Boy and
Comparison with the Hellenistic Apollo
Belvedere. The Evolution of Realism 1) c. 600
BC, 2) c. 575-550 BC, 3) c. 560 BC, 4) c. 530-520
BC , 5) c. 515-500 BC, 6) c. 485 BC, 7) c. 320 BC
http//www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Arts/Evolution.htm
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A Pattern of Development
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Greek Sculpture Development

• Periods and their Styles
• Vocabulary to Describe Styles
• Example Pieces
• Example Types

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Periodization

• Historians use a technique we may term
  periodization to assign events, individuals and
  works of art and literature to a specific time
  period.

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Periods of Greek Sculpture

• Archaic
• Classical
• Hellenistic

500s and earlier B.C. 400s B.C 300s B.C. and
later
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Archaic
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Two Archaic Sculpture Types Kouros Kore

• Male kouros (youth) Female kore (maiden)

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Classical
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Hellenistic
Period ________
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Vocabulary to Describe Greek Sculpture

• stylized elimination or exaggeration of details
  subjects are portrayed using a pattern or
  standard of expression
• symbolic use of symbols to convey meaning
• idealize attempt to create perfect
  representations
• contraposotto weight shift that renders a
  graceful attitude to the sculpture.
• naturalistic or realistic portraiture, replicate
  life without relying on ideals, styles, or
  symbols we may think of this as life-like

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How to look at Greek Sculpture

• Ask Three Questions

• To Identify the
• Period
• of a Greek Sculpture

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How to look at Greek Sculpture

• What is the FACIAL EXPRESSION?
• What is the POSE?
• How are the KNEES portrayed?

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How to look at Greek Sculpture

• What is the FACIAL EXPRESSION?

stylized elimination or exaggeration of details
subjects are portrayed using a pattern or
standard of expression note hair, eyes, nose,
mouth and symmetry
Archaic
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How to look at Greek Sculpture

• What is the FACIAL EXPRESSION?

Classical

• idealized
• represents an attempt to create perfect
  representation of the human form

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How to look at Greek Sculpture

• What is the FACIAL EXPRESSION?

• naturalistic or realistic
• portraiture, replicates life without relying on
  ideals, styles, or symbols
• We may think of these pieces as life-like.

Hellenistic
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Archaic
What is the POSE?

• note head position and attention
• note arm position and flexion
• note foot/leg position stylized/ or symbolic of
  motion or being at rest the meaning is debated
• note symmetry

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Classical
What is the POSE?

• frozen action or static pose
• contraposotto
• weight shift that renders a graceful attitude to
  the sculpture.

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Hellenistic
What is the POSE?

• awkward position
• frozen moment
• emotion demonstrated
• physical age imperfection evident or exaggerated

Period ________
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Archaic
How are the KNEES portrayed?

• block-like
• stiff, flexed muscles
• patella (knee cap) over emphasized

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Classical
How are the KNEES portrayed?

• a pose in motion may render differences between
  the two knees
• muscles are more gracefully joined, often
  somewhat over emphasized
• patella (knee cap) slightly over-emphasized

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Hellenistic
How are the KNEES portrayed?

• more graceful musculature
• knee cap evident but not over emphasized
• possibly obscured by clothing

Period ________
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Hellenistic
How are the KNEES portrayed?

• more graceful musculature
• knee cap evident but not over emphasized
• possibly obscured by clothing

Period ________
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Greek SculptureQuiz
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The Laocöon Group (Rome, Vatican Museums)
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Discobolos (c450 BC) Roman marble copy after
bronze original (Rome, National Museum)
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Doryphoros Polykleitos (The Canon, or Spear
Carrier) marble, c450 BC (Vatican Museums)
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Diadoumenos, or the Fillet Binder
Polykleitos (Roman copy after bronze original
c.450)
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Wounded Amazon, copy after originals known to
have been created by Phidias for competition
Metropolitan Museum, New York
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Wounded Amazon, copy after originals known to
have been created by Polykleitos for competition
?In Ephesus? Won by Polykleitos Vatican Museum
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Peplos Kore (c530 BC) polychromed (painted)
marble
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Peplos Kore (c530 BC) polychromed (painted)
marble
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Greek Sculpture Quiz
Moscophoros, the Calf-Bearer (Acropolis Museum)
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Greek Sculpture Quiz
"Rampin Horseman" Athens, Acropolis Museum
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Greek Sculpture Quiz
Kroisos from Anavyssos, grave marker (c540-515
BC) (Athens, National Museum) polychromed
(painted) marble
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Greek Sculpture Quiz
Kroisos from Anavyssos, grave marker (c540-515
BC) (Athens, National Museum) polychromed
(painted) marble
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Kritios (c480 BC) marble (Athens, Acropolis
Museum)
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Aphrodite of Melos, second century BC (Paris,
Louvre)
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Aphrodite of Melos, second century BC (Paris,
Louvre)
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Greek Sculpture Quiz
Apollonios, Seated Boxer (Rome, Museo delle
Terme) )
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Greek Sculpture Quiz
Satyr with Infant Dionysos (Rome, Vatican
Museums)
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Greek Sculpture Quiz
Name_______________________ Date__________D
irections Examine the figures as noted. Above
and beside each figure create a flower as
indicated by the diagram on the balckboard.