HART 205. Introduction to the History of Art
Lecture
9 (September 23,
1998).Geometric and Archaic Vase Painting and Sculpture
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Terms:
"Dark Ages" (include Geometric Period), petty kings,
aristocracy, polis (pl. poleis), tyranny, democracy (radical,
participatory, from 508 B.C.), kosmos, Persian invasion, 480-479
B.C., Black- and Red-Figure Styles/Techniques of pottery, Doric and
Ionic Orders.
GEOMETRIC PERIOD/STYLE VASE PAINTING
(900-700 B.C.)
Dipylon Amphora, Dipylon cemetery, Athens, 8th c.
B.C.
Dipylon Krater, Athens, 8th c. B.C.
ORIENTALIZING PERIOD/STYLE VASE PAINTING
(700-600 B.C.)
Corinthian black figure amphora with animal frieze,
Rhodes, c. 625-600 B.C.
The Blinding of Polyphemus and Gorgons (the Eleusis Amphora), Amphora
from Eleusis (Attica), c. 675-650 B.C.
ARCHAIC PERIOD VASE PAINTING (600-480
B.C.)
Black Figure
Kleitas and Ergotimus, François Vase, (Attic volute
krater), c. 570 B.C.
Exekias, Ajax and Achilles Playing Boardgame, amphora, c. 530
B.C.
Exekias, Dionysos in a Sailboad, kylix, c. 550-525 B.C.
Red Figure
Andokides Painter, Ajax and Achilles Playing Boardgame,
(Attic bilingual amphora), c. 525-520 B.C.
Euthymides, Revelers, amphora, c. 510-500 B.C.
"as never Euphronios [could do]"
Euphronios, Herakles Strangling Antaios,krater, 510-500
B.C.
Terms:
amphora (pl. amphorae), hydria (pl. hydriai), krater (pl.
kraters), kylix (pl. kylikes), lekythos (pl. lekythoi), registers,
silhouette technique, Cornith vs. Athens, allusion, foreshortening,
Dionysos (adj. Dionysiac).
ARCHAIC SCULPTURE
Male
Mantiklos "Apollo", from Thebes, 680 B.C.
Kouros from Attica, c. 600
Calf Bearer, dedicated to Rhonbos, Athens, c. 560 B.C.
Kroisos, kouros from Anavysos, 540-515 B.C.
Kritios Boy, (not a Kouros), from Athenian Acropolis, 480
B.C.
cf. Polykleitos, Doryphoros, 450-440, (Roman copy of Green
bronze original)
Female
Lady of Auxerre, goddess or kore, c. 650-625
"Hera", kore from Samos, 560 B.C.
Peplos Kore, from Athenian Acropolis, 530 B.C.
Kore made on Chios (?), from Athenian Acropolis, 510 B.C.
Euthydikos Kore, from Athenian Acropolis, 490 B.C.
Terms:
kouros (pl. Kouroi), bilateral symmetry, patterning vs.
modelling, votive offering, "Apollo", contrapposto, kore (pl. korai),
chiton and himation, peplos, "archaic smile"