Are you ready for Greek art history?

Here we go!!!
Begin with the SCULPTURE in Archaic period-
Statue of a Youth
- This statue was founded in 600 BC
- He represents Apollo or an idealized athelete.
- He has a archaic smile :D


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Kritios Boy

- Founded in 480 BC

- He stands in contrapposto or counterpose
(Contrapposto is weight shifted to one leg, one knee bent)







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Classical period-

3 Goddesses

- Founded in 435 BC

- They were larger than life!

- They were on the east pediment of the Parthenon

- They are commemorating the birth of Athena

(Pediment is a triangular area at the top of the facade (face) of a building)

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Helenistic period-
The Dying Gaul
- Found between 230-22- BC
- This is not a Greek sculpture
- It is a Roman copy of a Greek Bronze.


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Nike of Samothrace
- Founded in 200 BC
- She is the winged of victory
- She lands on the bow of a ship

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ARCHITECTURE in Classical period:
Caryatids
- Found between 421-405 BC
- It is a female figures used to support architecture rather than column

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Parthenon
- Found between 448-432 BC
- It built 8 years; post&lintel construction; use 70 thousand pieces
- The column is 33 ft long; the dimension is 101 ft wide, 228 ft long
- It was recreation in Nashville, TN
- It celebrated the Athena Parthenon and dedicated to their patron goddess Athena
- There are no straight line on this building

(In 1800, people tried to fixed it but it didn't get better) 

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Amphora

- Founded in 530 BC

- Achilles and Ajax play a game of Morra

- It is a large storage jar with 2 handles

- It was signed by Exekias

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The Peloponnesian War

- It happen between 431-404 BC

- It was an ancient Greek war fought by Athens and its empire against the Peloponnesian League led  by Sparta

- It strip the parthenon and brought down the whole city

3 Orders of Architecture

- It consists of Doric, Ionic, Corinthian

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Venus De Milo (Aphrodite of Milos)
- It was discovered in 1820
- It believed to depict Aphrodite the Greek Goddess of love and beauty


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Acropolis, Athens
- It is the highest point in the city
- It is the symbols of everything

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Athena Parthenon

- 44 ft tall

- She is coverd gold!!

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Greek key

- It represented infinity and unity

- It is the most popular design in Greek art and architecture

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Frieze- All scripture on the pediment