Greco-Roman Art

(3000–1100 Century BCE)

Cycladic Civilization - Female Sculpture

Minoan Civilization

• Palace of Knossos

Frescoes (Leaping Bull, Throne Room, Queen’s Toilet)

Snake Goddess

Terracotta - Kamares ware, Octopus Vase (Concept of horror vacui)

Rhyton

• Palace of Thera

Mycenaean Civilization

• Megaron

• Lion Gate

• Tholos of Treasury of Atreus

• Mask of Agamemnon

Ancient Greece

Religion

Major Phases

• Geometric Period (c. 1000–c. 800 BCE)

• Orientalising Period (c. 700–600 BCE)

• The Archaic Period (c. 600–480/479 BCE)

• The Classical Period (480/479–323 BCE)

• The Hellenistic Period and Beyond (323–31 BCE )

Pottery

• Geometric Style - eg. Dipylon Amphora

• Orientalizing Style - eg. Polyphemos Painter, Amphora

• Archaic Style (Black Figure Pottery)- eg. Exekias, Amphora showing Achilles and Ajax

• Late Archaic to Classical Style (Red Figure Pottery) - eg. Niobid Painter, Calyx Krater, Achilles
and Patroches, Kylix

• Classical to Hellenistic Period (White-ground painting) - eg. Reed Painter, Warrior by a Grave

Sculpture

• Geometric Period - eg. Apollo of Mantiklos

• Archaic Style

Kouroi/ Kouros (Male)

Korai/ Kore (Female) - eg. Peplos Kore

• Classical Style (introduction to Contrapposto)

• Golden Age of Greek Sculpture

• Realism

• Heightened sense of Humanism

• Limbs start to move

• Loose Fabrics

• Contraposto Pose https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vK7Z2Odnc0

• eg. The Kritios Boy, Poseidon or Zeus, found in the sea o Cape Artemision, Polykleitos,
Doryphoros (Spear Bearer), Aphrodite of Knidos

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• Hellenistic Period-
• Dramatic Expressions

• Voyeuristic Sense of Ugliness

• Intense Movements and Tensions

• Beauty came after Emotional Expression

• Psychological Depth
• eg. Boxer at Rest, Nike (Winged Victory) of Samothrace, Laocoön and His Sons

Architecture
• Greek Orders - Doric, Ionic and Corinthian

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• Important Buildings

Parthenon Temple, Acropolis of Athens

*Look at the Pediment and Metope Sculptures

Temple of Athena Nike, Acropolis of Athens

*Look at the Sculptures

The Erechtheum, Acropolis of Athens

Caryatid Porch

Ancient Rome

• Chronology: Roman Periods

Rule by Senate and patrician citizens Punic Wars (264–146 BCE)

Transition to Empire
Julius Caesar (46–44 BCE)

Octavian/Augustus (27 BCE–14 CE)

Early Empire
Julio-Claudian Dynasty (14–68 CE)

Nero (54–68)

Titus (79–81)

Domitian (81–96)

So-called Good Emperors (96–180)

Nerva (96–98)

Trajan (98–117)

Beginning of Decline
Commodus (180–192)

Political unrest and economic decline (193–235)

Anarchy (235–284)

Period of Tetrarchs (284–306)
Diocletian (284–305)

Late Empire
Constantine I (306–337)
• Important Buildings

Ara Pacis Augustae (Latin, "Altar of Augustan Peace”)

The Arch of Titus

Reliefs on the inner panels

Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre)

Pantheon, Rome

• Sculpture

Augustus of Prima Porta, early 1st century CE

A Young Flavian Woman, c. 90 BCE, Marble

• Painting

First Style (200-60 BCE)

The Second Style (90-20 BCE)

Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii

The Third Style (20 BCE- 10/20 CE)

The Fourth Style (20-79 CE)

Hercules Strangling the Serpents, Nero’s Golden House, Pompeii

• Mosaic

Battle of Issus Mosaic

opus tesserae

opus vermiculatum