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Greek Archaic Art

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ARCHAIC ARCHITECTURE

Monumental Stone Architecture:  The Orders

Temple model, 7th century (Orientalizing Period)

DORIC ORDER

*Temple of Apollo with painted metopes, Thermon, c. 625 b.c.
*Temple of Hera, Olympia, c. 600
       Head of the archaic cult image
*Temple of Artemis, Corfu, c. 580 b.c.
    Archaic terra cotta plaque from Syracuse illustrating possible color
Temple of Hera (Basilica), Paestum, c. 560
Temple of Apollo, Corinth, c. 550 b.c.
 
 

IONIC ORDER

Early Ionic capitals
Temple of Artemis, Ephesus, c. 550 b.c.
*Siphnian Treasury, Delphi, 530 b.c. with its sculpture
    Sculpture in the pediment, struggle between Apollo and Herakles for the Delphic Tripod,
    East frieze:  the Trojan war
    North frieze:  battle of gods and giants
 
 

ARCHAIC SCULPTURE

*Female figure (Kore of Auxerre), c. 650 b.c.
       Egyptian statue of a woman, 5th Dyn. c. 2400 b.c.
Unfinished monumental figure from a quarry on Naxos
*Kouros of Sounion, c. 600
        Egyptian statuette of Kaemhesit, 5th dyn. c. 2400 b.c.
*Metropolitan Kouros, 600 b.c.
Kleobis and Biton, 590 b.c.
*Kroisos Youth from Anavyssos, 525 b.c.
*Piraeus Apollo, c. 525 b.c.
Peplos Kore, c. 530 b.c.     http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/Museum/peplostext.html
*Kore from Chios, c. 520 b.c.
Kore 674, c. 500 b.c.
Aristodikos Kouros, c. 500 b.c.

ARCHAIC VASE PAINTING--BLACK FIGURE

*Francois Vase, signed by the painter Kleitias and the potter Ergotimos, c. 570 b.c.

Black figured amphora, Achilles Killing Penthesilia, Exekias, c. 540 b.c.
*Black figured kylix, Dionysus in a boat, Exekias, c. 540 b.c.
Black figured amphora (Return of Castor and Pollux, on the other side, Ajax and Achilles playing a game), Exekias c. 540 b.c.
Attic Black Figured plaque, attributed to Exekias, Slave and Donkey

BILINGUAL VASES (black figure on one side, red figure on the other)

Black figure by the Lysippides Painter, Red figure by the Andokides Painter
       Ajax and Achilles
       *Herakles leading a bull, Andokides Painter, c. 525 b.c.
 
 

ARCHAIC RED FIGURE

*Amphora revelers, has an inscription, "as never Euphronius,"
       painted by Euthymides, 510-520 b.c.
Amphora, maenad attacked by two satyrs, Euphronius, 510-500 b.c.
*Krater with Herakles wrestling Antaeus, Euphronius, 520-500 b.c.
*Krater with the Death of Sarpedon, "The Euphronius Vase" in the Metropolitan Museum NY, Euphronius, c. 515 b.c.
Plaque with running warrior by Euphronius

Amphora, Dionysus and Followers, Kleophrades Painter, 500-490 b.c.
Kantharos (wine goblet) with erotic scenes, c. 500 b.c.
Kylix with Revelers by Foundry Painter, 490-480 b.c.
Kylix with Youths and Men on Couches Foundry Painter, c. 490-480 b.c.

Kylix with revelers, scene from interior Brygos Painter, c. 490 b.c.

*Wall paintings from the Tomb of the Diver, Paestum, c. 480 b.c.
 

For a discussion of the repainting of the Peplos Kore cast.
http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/Museum/peplostext.html

Look up the Perseus web site for more information on hundreds of Greek monuments.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

For example look at their entry on Aegina
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/architindex?lookup=Aegina,+Temple+of+Aphaia
 

You can easily search for any monument using the Art and Architecture category.  It also includes many vases, coins, and sculptures.



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