1. Ancient Greece
Kouroi
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Vase Painting

2. Discussion Format
• Review of Ancient Greece
• Kouroi sculptures
• Vase painting
– Technique
– Overview
– Video
Temples (if time)
– Group work
– Class Discussion

3. Peloponnesos

4. Regional Populations
of the Greek World
DORIANS
-settled in Peloponnesos
Ionians
-settled in the western coast of
Asia Minor (Modern Turkey)
Ionia
Peloponnesos

5. Mycenaean and Dark Ages
• Bronze Age
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1600-1200 BCE
Epics of Homer
Mycenaean
Lion Gate at Mycenae
Palace like citadels
Rich, prosperous society
Destruction of Palaces
Decline/ Fall of civilization
• Dark Ages
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1200-800 BCE
Lower population
Lost important arts and technologies
Lost contact to outside world

6. Renaissance of Ancient Greece
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800-600 BCE
Included Geometric, Orientalizing, and Archaic Periods
More burials
More settlements
Technological changes
Monumental stone sculpture and buildings
Religious buildings
Oversees contact (trade and settlement)
Literacy
Olympic Games
• in 776 BCE the Greek-speaking states held their first athletic games at
Olympia
• After the 1st Olympics, Greeks regarded all Greek-speaking people as
Hellas

7. Ancient Greece
• Geometric and Orientalizing Art (900-600 BCE)
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City-states took shape
Olympic Games were founded
Began trade
Contact with Egypt and Mesopotamia
• Orientalizing phase
• Archaic Art (600-480 BCE)
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Life sized stone kouroi statues
Stone temples with peripteral colonnades
Doric and Ionic Orders
Red Figure Vase Painting
• Early and High Classical Art (480-400 BCE)
– Persian sack of the Athenian Acropolis
– Developments in statuary

8. Archaic Period
600-480 BCE
Kouros/Kouroi (plural)
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Life-size
Emulates Egyptian stance
Grave markers
Sculpted in the round
– Marble block
– Carved from, drawings 4 sides
Kouros, Attica, Greece
600 BCE
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Nude
Triangular head
Flat face
Naturalistic developments in
features
Archaic Smile
– Showed person portrayed was alive
Kroisos, Anavysos, Greece
530 BCE

9. Kore
• Thought to be wearing a
peplos
• Actually dressed in 4
different garments
• Goddess
• Broken hand would had
held an attribute to
identify her
• Soft treatment of flesh
• Would have been
painted
Peplos Kore, Acropolis, Athens, Greece, 530 BCE

10. Athenian Vase Painting

12. Athenian Vase Painting
Black figure side
Red figure side
Andokides Painter, Achilles and Ajax playing dice game, (Amphora vase type)
520 BCE

13. Athenian Vase Painting
• Black Figure
– Start with unfired clay
– Using a brush, painted subject on vase with clay slip (turned
black after firing)
– Details and outlines were incised into the slip
– Red and white pigments could then be added for accents
– 3 phase firing process
• Red Figure
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Outlines sketched
Redrawn with a brush using slip
Addition of other pigments if desired
Area between figures filled in with slip

15. Temple of Hera I (Basillica) Paestum, Italy, 550 BCE

16. West pediment, Temple of Artemis, Corfu, Greece, 600-580 BCE