VII. Greek Archaic Art
Colonizing the Mediterranean World
DU1701 Periods of Art History I
Archaic Greece, ca. 800 BCE – 480 BCE
(second Persian invasion of Greece)
Centaur of Lefkandi, maybe
Cheiron (?), height: 36 cm, end
of the 10th century BCE
Achaeological Museum, Eretria
Pomegranate vase, heigth:10,2 cm, diam.
8,3 cm, terracotta, 8th century BCE
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Man and centaur, height: 11.10 cm, bronze, mid-8th century BCE
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Centaur, cast bronze, c. 530 BCE, 11.1 x 3.9 x 11.9 cm
Princeton University Art Museum
“Master of the Dipylon”, funerary amphora, clay,
height: 1,55 m, around 760 BCE
National Archaeological Museum, Athens
Kylix with sculptor working on a herma, Epictetus
painter, c. 520-500 BCE
Bronze herm, 9,2 cm, c. 490 BCE
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Mantiklos “Apollo”, Late Geometric or Early Orientalizing Period, ca.
700–675 BCE, Greece, Boiotia, Thebes, bronze, H: 20,3 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Lady of Auxerre, from Crete
(?), limestone, height: 75 cm,
c. 640–630 BCE
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Kleopis and Biton, twin kouroi,
attributed to Polymedes of Argos,
height: 2,16 m and 2,18 m, c. 580 BCE
Archaeological Museum, Delphi
Moschophoros (Calf-bearer), excavated at Athens, Acropolis (in
1864), marble, Height: 1,65 (restored), c. 570–560 BCE
Acropolis Museum, Athens
Left: Statue of Nike, found in
Delos, attributed to Achermos of
Chios, height: 90 cm, c. 550 BCE
National Archaeological Museum,
Athens
Right: Athenian Kore, from the
Acropolis, height: 55 cm, c. 520 BCE
Acropolis Museum, Athens
Nike marble sculpture, attributed to Antenor,
height: 1,13 m, c. 513–500 BCE
Archaeological Museum, Delphi
Nike, bronze, 8.6 x 8.4 x 2.1 cm, c. 500 BCE
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
Peplos kore, Parian marble
with traces of polychromy,
height: 1,17 m, c. 530 BCE
Acropolis Museum, Athens
Casts of the Peplos Kore with two
versions of restored painted decoration,
as Artemis or Athena
Acropolis Museum, Athens
Marble stele with athlete and little girl, capital and finial in the form of a
sphinx, 423,4 cm height, ca. 530 BCE / Metropolitan Museum, New York
Berlin goddess, from Attica, female statue with polos and
pomegranate, marble, c. 570-560 BCE, H: 1,93 m
Antikenmuseum, Berlin
Cavalier Rampin, marble, c. 550 BCE
Acropolis Museum, Athens
Kroisos kouros, c.
530 BCE
Archaeological
Museum, Athens
MET kouros,
c. 590–580 BCE
Metropolitan
Museum, New York
Kouros of Tenea, c.
560-560 BCE
Archaeological
Museum, Athens
Piraeus Apollo,
c. 530-520 BCE
Archaeological Museum
of Piraeus
Aristokidos kouros,
c. 510-500 BCE
Archaeological
Museum, Athens
Kritios Boy, from the Acropolis,
Athens, c. 480 BCE
Acropolis Museum, Athens
Aristokidos kouros,
c. 510-500 BCE
Archaeological Museum, Athens
Chryselephantine (ivory
& gold) statue of
Apollo (?), c. 550 BCE,
from Delphi
Archaeological
Museum, Delphi
Recreation of the lost colossal statue by Phidias,
Athena Parthenos
Nashville Centennial Park
“The statue is created with ivory and gold. On the middle of
her helmet is likeness of the Sphinx ... and on either side of
the helmet are griffins in relief. ... The statue of Athena is
upright, with a tunic reaching to the feet, and on her breast
the head of Medusa is worked in ivory. She holds a statue
of Victory [Nike] that is approx. four cubits high, and in the
other hand a spear; at her feet lies a shield and near the spear
is a serpent. This serpent would be Erichthonius. On the
pedestal is the birth of Pandora in relief”
Pausanias, Description of Ancient Greece, 2nd century CE
Preserved metopes from the Temple C of Selinunte, Castelvetrano,
Sicily, half of the 6th century BCE
National Archaeological Museum “Antonio Salinas”, Palermo
Medusa, painted terracotta plaque, 56 x 50 cm, from the
Athena Sanctuary, Syracuse, c. 575-550 BCE
Regional Archaeological Museum Paolo Orsi, Syracuse
Antefix with the head of Medusa, terracotta, 6th
century BCE, from Tarentino, Southern Italy
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Antefix with the head of Medusa, terracotta, c. 540 BCE,
from Tarentino, Southern Italy
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Antefix
Bowl with the Gorgo, black figural
pottery, ca. 520 BCE
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Alabaster with the Gorgo, incised and
painted clay, ca. 600–580 BCE
Musée du Louvre, Paris