Greek Sculpture Midterm Statues

Orientalizing art (Daedalic sculpture)

c. 700-600 BC

Warrior type is still popular; Bronze males and terracotta femalels; Panhellenic Games: rise of the athletic youth figure; Marble

Archaic Era

c. 600-480 BC

Marble and the monumental scale in archaic sculpture. Two types/two words: kouros and kore. Also: the relief sculpture in stone. Contexts: the divine, the votive, the funerary

Early Classical art (Severe style)

c. 480-450 BC

-contrapposto stance begins to be common; realistic drapery; beginning to do better with proportions; a lot of sculptures were added into architectural elements.

High classical art

450-400 BC

-idealized forms, idealism for themes, detailed drapery, enhanced naturalism, contrapposto, etc.

-Ivory female figure

-from Athens

-NAM

-c. 730 (Daedalic sculpture)

-source of ivory

-nudity as a signifier of oriental influences

-POLOS hat

-Diplon amphora

-NAM

-Unknown artist

-c. 750 BC (geometric art/daedalic)

-monumental size; tells a story

-context:grave marker/funerary

-Melanes Kouros

-found in Naxos

-Kroisos Kouros

-from Anavyssos

-530 BC (archaic style)

-in the NAM

-Contour; proportions; three dimensionality vs. frontality; Archaic smile; Stylized hair

-inscription: Stay and mourn at the monument for dead Kroisos whom violent Ares destroyed, fighting in the front rank

-sculptor is unknown

-no secure record of the time and location of its discovery; although a theory is that is was saw in various parts and sent to Paris for sale before it was returned to the NAM

-Aristodikos Kouros

-c. 500 BC

-From Attica

-Gravemarker of Aristodikos

-Naturalistic; arms in motion; closer to reality

-still stiff, frontal pose

-In NAM

-Sculptor: unknown

-Sounion Kouros

-in NAM

-580 BC

-Naxian marble

-buried in a pit at the sanctuary of Posiedon at Sounion

-Massive disproportionate head

-Disproportionally large eyes

-Archaic style/ stylized features and frontal pose and very intricate hairstyle

-Archermos Nike

-in the NAM

-One of the earliest representations of nike (she has wings)

-drilled holes in crown are for gems

-6th century

-Phrasikleia Kore

-c 550 BC

-in the NAM

-archaic art

-found in Attica

-sculptor was Aristion of Paros

-Kritios boy

-Acropolis Museum; found at the acropolis (it was a votive)

-sculpted by Kritios

-between archaic and classical art (Severe style)

-480 BC

-one of the earliest examples of contrapposto

-Peplos Kore

-Acropolis Museum

-unknown sculptor but it might be the “Rampin Master”

-Archaic period c. 530 BC

-votive

-red hair color is still seen

-believed to be portraying Artemis or Athena

-Hekatompedon pediment

-Acropolis Museum

-on the Hekatompedon (which was an early temple that was replaced by the Parthenon)

-c. 570 BC

-Archaic Period

-a lot of color; archaic style; smile, eyes, eyebrows; beards show maturity

-sculptor: Attic

-Moschophoros (calf bearer)

-Acropolis Museum

-560 BC

-Archaic period; archaic style

-although the calf has movement, this kouros is still very stiff

-likely was a votive offering

-attributed to the sculptor Rhonbos

-Caryatids

-Acropolis Museum

-Used to be on the Erechtheion until they were moved in 1978

-different sculptors (Pheidias and his pupils Agorakritos, Alkamenes, Kolotes, Kresilas)

-420 to 415 BC

-Classical Period

-plaited hair; unique; similar doric and peplos; contrapposto stance

-East Pediment

-Acropolis Museum

-426-423 BC

-sculptor: Agorakritos

-Classical Period

-West Pediment

-437-432 BC

-Classical Period

-Pheidias’ workshop

-Part of the Parthenon

-more natural stances