IX. Classical and Hellenistic Greek Art
Periods of Art History I: From Prehistory to Trajan
Chryselephantine
(ivory & gold)
statue of Apollo
(?), c. 550 BCE,
from Delphi
Archaeological
Museum, Delphi
Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768)
"noble simplicity and quiet grandeur"
History of the Art of Antiquity (1764)
“Black figured style” “Red figured style”
Vase signed by Exekias, Ca. 540 BCE, Vatican Museum Vase signed by Euthymides, ca. 500 BCE, Munich Antiquarium
Janiform kantharos with addorsed heads of a male African
and a female Greek, ca. 480–470 B.C.
Kritios Boy,
from the
Acropolis,
Athens, c. 480
BCE
Acropolis
Museum,
Athens
Aristokidos
kouros,
c. 510-500 BCE
Archaeological
Museum, Athens
Zeus (or Poseidon), c. 470–460 BCE, bronze, 2.09 m high,
from a shipwreck off Cape Artemision
National Archaeological Museum, Athens
Bronze statuette of Zeus or Poseidon, early 5th century BCE
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Zeus of Ugento, c. 530 BCE
Museo archeologico nazionale di Taranto
Discobolos, interior from an Attic redfigured
cup, ca. 490 BCE
Musée du Louvre, Paris Myron, Discobolos, 460–450 BCE
Leo von Klenze,
Reconstruction of the
Acropolis, 1846
Pinakothek
Museum, Munich
Recreation of the lost colossal Phidias’s statue
by Ernest Martin, 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
Varvakeion, Roman marble copy of
Athena Parthenos by Phidias
(438 BCE), c. 130 CE
National Archaeological Museum,
Athens
Reconstruction of the chryselephantine statue of Zeus in the
Temple of Olympia, in the Sculptured antique art of Quatremère
de Quincy (1815)
Temple of Zeus in Olympia, contemporary visualisation
Archibald Archer, Elgin Room, oil on canvas, 1819
British Museum, London
The East Pediment
Phidias, Marble relief from the North frieze of the Parthenon, 438-432 BCE, British Museum, London
Kritios Boy, from the Acropolis,
Athens, c. 480 BCE
Acropolis Museum, Athens
Polykleitos, Doryphoros, roman copy,
pentelic marble, 198.12 x 48.26 x 48.26
cm, c. 120-150 BCE
Minneapolis Institute of Art
(original bronze statue cast around 440)
symmetria
The Canon of Polykleitos
Westmacott Athlete, Roman copy of a Greek bronze
original from ca. 430 BCE, 150 x 61 x 55 cm
British Museum, London
“contrapposto”
Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, 1485
Uffizi Gallery, Florence
Donatello, David, 1440, Museo di Bargello, Florence
Polykleitos, Diadoumenos, roman copy 1st
century CE of a Greek original
Metropolitan Museum, New York
After Lysippos, Portrait of Alexander the Great
(356-323 BCE), c. 330 BCE
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Lysippos, Apoxyomenos, Greek original of ca.
330 BCE
(left: Vienna, right: Croatian Apoxyomenos)
Pair of eyes, bronze, marble, frit, quartz, and
obsidian, 5th century BCE or later /
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Detail of marble Apoxyomenos, Roman copy of the 1st
century CE after a Greek bronze original, marble, H: 2,5 m
/ Vatican Museums, Museo Pio-Clementino
Apoxyomenos, Roman copy of the
1st century CE after a Greek bronze
original, marble, H: 2,5 m
Vatican Museums, Museo Pio-
Clementino
Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Knidos, 4th Century BCE
Statuette of a veiled and masked
dancer, 3rd–2nd century BCE
20.5 × 8.9 × 11.4 cm
Metropolitan Museum, New York
The ‘Alexander Sarcophagus’, c. 312 BCE, Pentelic marble and polychromy, found in Sidon, 195 x 318 x 167 cm
İstanbul Archaeological Museum
The Dying Galatian, Roman copy of a lost sculpture, marble, original in bronze,
from c. 230–220 BCE
Musei Capitolini, Rome
Ludovisi Gaul, Roman copy
of a lost bronze, original
from c. 230–220 BCE, H:
2,11 m
Palazzo Altemps, Rome
Barberini Faun, c. 220 BCE, Roman copy, H: 2.15m
Glyptothek, Munich
Bronze statue of Eros sleeping, 3rd–2nd century BCE
41.9 × 35.6 × 85.2 cm, 124.7 kg
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Pergamon altar, reconstruction of the western façade, with frieze panels of the Gigantomachy and original architectural
elements, Pergamon, ca. 170 BCE
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung
Hagesandros, Athenedoros, and
Polydoros, Laocoon and His Sons,
Marble, Roman copy after an original
from ca. 200 BCE, found in the
Baths of Trajan, Rome, 1506
Vatican Museums
Pair of gold armbands, ca. 200 BCE, MET Golden bracelet with Heracles knot, 3rd–2nd century BCE, MET