Gardners Art through the Ages A Global History

Geometric Art Also during the eighth centuryBCE, the human figure returned to Greek art—not in monumental statuary, which was ex ...

Orientalizing Art During the 600sBCE, the pace and scope of Greek trade and colo- nization accelerated and Greek artists became ...

ORIENTALIZING AMPHORAAn elaborate Corinthian amphora (FIG. 5-5), or two-handled storage jar, typifies the new Greek fascination ...

TEMPLE A, PRINIAS The foundation of the Greek trading colony of Naukratis in Egypt (MAP3-1) before 630BCEbrought the Greeks into ...

Statuary According to one Greek writer, Daedalus used the same composi- tional patterns for his statues as the Egyptians used fo ...

convention, the Greek artist signaled a very different intention from any Egyptian counterpart. ANAVYSOS KOUROSSometime around 5 ...

PEPLOS KORE A stylistic “sister” to the Anavysos kouros is the statue of a woman traditionally known as the Peplos Kore(FIG. 5-1 ...

sculptors delighted in rendering the intricate patterns created by the cascading folds of thin, soft material. In another Acropo ...

110 Chapter 5 ANCIENT GREECE 5-14Elevations of the Doric and Ionic orders. The major differences between the Doric and Ionic ord ...

Doric order (FIG. 5-14,left), where decorative sculpture appears only in the metope and pediment “voids.” Ionic (FIG. 5-14,right ...

what must have been a high and massive entablature. The columns and capitals thus express in a vivid manner their weight-bearing ...

Doric columns in the porch and sculptured metopes in the frieze. The Siphnians equally characteristically employed the Ionic ord ...

Vase Painting Labeled figures and artists’ signatures also appear on Archaic painted vases. By the mid-sixth centuryBCE, the Ath ...

do not really look down at the table but stare out from the profile heads in the old manner. For all his brilliance, Exekias was ...

EUPHRONIOS One of these younger and more adventurous painters was Eu- phronios, whose krater depicting the struggle between Hera ...

Aegina and the Transition to the Classical Period The years just before and after 500BCEwere also a time of dynamic transition i ...

same size, regardless of the statue’s position in the pediment. Unlike the experimental design at Corfu (FIG. 5-17), the Aegina ...

Architecture and Architectural Sculpture The decades following the removal of the Persian threat are universally considered the ...

spectator have yet to occur.Only one man reacts—a seer who knows the future (FIG. 5-32). He is a remarkable figure. Unlike the g ...

Statuary Early Classical sculptors were also the first to break away from the rigid and unnatural Egyptian-inspired pose of the ...