Ancient Greece

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Ancient Greece

• Unknown period of history of Greece from end of
  Mycenaean civilization to Classical
  civilization-approximately 1100-700 BCE
• Steady, unbroken progression and evolution in art
  from about 700 BCE to about 400 CE
• Independent city-states with a different form of
  government in each-kings, nobles, tyrants,
  democracy, etc.
• Interest in humanity Man is the measure of all
  things-Protagoras, 5th century BCE
• Progression styles attempt to reach the ideal

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Greece, Dipylon Vase, 740 BCE, Geometric

• Krater
• Meander/keys

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Greece, Amphora with Animals, 625 BCE

• Horror Vacui

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Exekias, Amphora with Ajax and Achilles Playing
Draughts, 540-530 BCE

• Black figure painting

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Euthymides, Amphora with Three Revelers, 510 BCE

• Red Figure painting
• Hubris

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Euphronios, Krater with Achilles Wrestling
Antaios, ca. 510 BCE
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Achilles Painter, Lekythos, ca. 440 BCE

• White Ground

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Meidias Painter, Hydria with Garden of
Hesperides, 410-400 BCE,
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Greece, Lady of Auxerre, 7th century BCE,
Oriental

• Daedalic

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Greece, Peplos Kore, Archaic, 530 BCE

• Kore figure
• peplos

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Greece, Calf Bearer, 560 BCE, Archaic

• Kouros figure

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Greece, Kroisos, Archaic, 530 BCE
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Greece, Kritios Boy, Classical, 480 BCE
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Riace Warrior, 460-450 BCE

• Lost-wax bronze casting

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Polykleitos, Greece, Doryphoros, (Cannon)
450-440 BCE, Classical

• Contrapposto
• Antithesis
• Chiastic

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Myron, Greece, Diskobolos, 450 BCE, Classical
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Praxiteles, Hermes and Dionysos, 340 BCE
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Lysippos, Apoxymenos, 330 BCE
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Epigonos (?), Dying Gaul, 230-220 BCE
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Laocoon Group, 1st century CE
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Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Knidos, 350-340 BCE
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Nike of Samothrace, 190 BCE
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Alexandros of Antioch-on-the-Meander, Aphrodite
of Melos (Venus de Milo), 150-125 BCE

• Archaism

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Greek, Aphrodite and Pan, 100 BCE
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Old Market Woman, 150-100 BCE

• Realism

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Greece, Barberini Faun, ca. 200 BCE