Valencia High School AP/IB Art HistoryMrs. Schultz
Content Area 2: Ancient Mediterranean
Chapter 5: Ancient Greece
900- 30 B.C.E.
Goals:
•Understand the diverse cultural influences on Greek artistic development
•Connect the philosophy and religion of the ancient Greeks to their values in art and architecture.
•Recall the basic periods of Greek art and place works of art and architecture into these periods based on their characteristics
•Discuss the representation of the human form through different periods of Greek art.
•Observe the development of Greek architectural structures in accordance with their purposes
•Identify the orders of Greek architecture and compare and contrast their appearances
•Understand the impact of the conquest of the Greeks on their respective art forms
•Discuss individual artists and their respective styles
List of Required Works AP:
Cue Cards
- Athenian agora. Archaic through Hellenistic Greek. 600 B.C.E.- 150 C.E. Plan.
- AnavysosKouros. Archaic Greek. c. 530 B.C.E. Marble with remnants of paint.
(p. 113)
3. Peplos Kore from the Acropolis. Archaic Greek. c. 530 B.C.E. Marble, painted details. (p.114)
5. Niobides Krater. Anonymous vase painter of Classical Greece known as the Niobid Painter. c. 460- 450 B.C.E. Clay, red-figure technique (white highlights). (p. 143)
6. Doryphoros (Spear Bearer).Polykleitos, Original 450-440 B.C.E. Roman copy (marble) of Greek original (bronze). (p. 132-133)
7. Acropolis. Athens, Greece. Iktinos and Kallikrates. c. 447- 424 B.C.E. Marble. (p. 104-105, 134- 141)
8. Grave stele of Hegeso. Attributed to Kallimachos. c. 410 B.C.E. Marble and paint. (p. 142-143, 146, 149)
9.Winged Victory of Samothrace. Hellenistic Greek. c. 190 B.C.E. Marble. (p. 158)
10. Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon. Asia Minor (present- day Turkey). Hellenistic Greek. c. 175 B.C.E. Marble (architecture and sculpture). (p. 155-157)
11. Alexander Mosaic from the House of Faun, Pompeii. Republican Roman. c. 100 B.C.E. Mosaic. (p. 150- 151)
12. Seated boxer. Hellenistic Greek. c. 100 B.C.E. Bronze (p. 160)
List of Required WorksIB:
Cue Cards
1. Statue of a Kouros. c. 590- 580 B.C.E. Naxian marble. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
2. Sophilos, The Wedding Procession of Peleas and Thetis. c. 580 B.C.E. Black- figured bowl (dinos). British Museum, London.
3. Dying Warrior (‘Laomedon’). c. 505- 500 B.C.E. Figure from the Temple of Aphaia, Aigina. Glyptothek. Munich
4. Temple of Aphaia, Aigina (5th century B.C.E. Exterior.
5. Anonymous (‘The Berlin Painter’), Kitharode. c. 490 B.C.E. Red- figure amphora. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
6. Temple of Zeus, Olympia. c. 472- 456 B.C.E. Illustrations showing reconstructions of the exterior and ground-plan.
7. Temple of Athena Nike, The Acropolis, Athen (5th century B.C.E.). Exterior and ground- plan.
8. Nike (un)fastening her Sandal (“Sandalbinder”). c. 420- 410 B.C.E. Relief from the Temple of Athena Nike, The Acropolis, Athens. The Acropolis Museum, Athens.
9. Pergamon Altar (2nd century B.C.E.). Photograph of the entire structure and ground-plan, as reconstructed in the Pergamon Museum der Staatliche Museenzu Berlin.\
10. Colonna Venus. Roman marble copy of the Aphrodite of Cnidus by Praxiteles. MuseoPio- Clementino, MuseiVaticani, Vatican City.
11. Moscophoros (Calf- bearer), (c. 560 BCE). The Acropolis Museum, Athens.
List of Required Vocabulary:
Valencia High School AP/IB Art HistoryMrs. Schultz
- canon of proportions
- caryatid
- contrapposto
- corinthian capitals
- daedalic
- doric
- encaustic
- foreshortening
- frieze
- harmonic numerical ratio
- ionic
- lost wax technique
- metope
- pediment
- peripteral/peristyle
Valencia High School AP/IB Art HistoryMrs. Schultz
Ideas/Concepts:
- What advantages did the red-figure style of vase painting offer over the black-figure?
2.What are the Greek orders and what two basic systems evolved?
3.What is the significance of the Kritios Boy in the development of Greek statuary?
4.Describe the Pergamene “Baroque” style that developed in the Hellenistic period.
5.From a Greek architectural point of view, what makes the Parthenon “perfect?”
6.What are the Elgin marbles?
7.Describe the change in Greek thought and art in the fourth century BCE.
Geometric Period (9th – 8th centuries BCE)
•Describe geometric features in the design of the Geometric krater from the Dipylon Cemetery.
•What type of scene is being displayed in the registers?
•What was the purpose of such an item?
Orientalizing Period (7th century BCE)
•The pace and scope of Greek trade and colonization increased in the near East and Egypt during this period.
•What Egyptian and/or near Eastern qualities can be observed in the works of Greek art during this period?
Archaic Period (6th century BCE)
•Notice how representation of the human figure changes
•Recognize the emergence of the Doric and Ionic orders of architecture
•Realize the refinement of Greek vase painting and differentiate between black-figure and red-figure vases
Aegina and the Transition to the Classical Period
•Compare and contrast the design of the Temple of Aphaia at Aegina (500 – 490 BCE) to the Temple of Hera I at Paestum.
•Notice the refinement of form of the Temple of Aphaia.
•Compare and contrast the pediment sculpture of the Temple of Aphaia to the Temple of Artemis of Corfu.
•Notice that the pediment of Temple of Aphaia utilized sculpture in the round, similarly sized figures throughout, and a unified narrative.
Early and High Classical Periods (5th century BCE)
•Understand the significance of the Persian invasions of the early 5th century to the development of the Classical period.
•Examine the development of human representation in sculpture and the philosophy and principles behind its form.
•Explore the Acropolis, its architecture and sculpture.
Late Classical Period (4th century BCE)
•Late 5th century was marked by the devastating Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta
•Macedonians invade Greece and defeat the united city states at the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BCE.
•4th century Greece – political turmoil
•Affected appearance of art
Hellenistic Period (323 – 30 BCE)
•Begins after the death of Alexander the Great (323 BCE); lasts through the defeat of Cleopatra and Mark Anthony by the Romans at the Battle of Actium (30 BCE)
•Relate the influence on Greek architecture as a result of the expansion of the Greek world.
•Observe the different qualities and values of Hellenistic art compared to the Classical period