Chapter 5 - Ancient Greece

THINK ABOUT IT:
5.1  Trace the emergence of a distinctive Classical style and approach to art and architecture during the early centuries of Greek civilization and assess the ways Hellenistic sculptors departed from its norms.
5.2  Explore the principal themes and subject matter of ancient Greek art, rooted in the lives—both heroic and ordinary—of the people who lived in this time and place as well as the mythological tales that were significant to them.
5.3  Explore the nature and meaning of the High Classical style in relation to the historical and cultural situation in Greece during the fifth century BCE.
5.4  Understand the differences between and assess the uses of the three orders used in temple architecture.

IMAGES (be able to identify these images by title, general time period, medium, and culture of origin)

• 5-1
• ​5-2
• 5-4
• 5-5
• See p. 110 - Elements of Architecture (know the Greek orders and their parts)
• 5-13/14/15
• 5-18/19/20/21
• 5-22 (p. 117 - shapes of Greek vessels - know the names)
• 5-26
• 5-28
• 5-29
• 5-33
• 5-36 A and B (parts of a temple plan)
• 5-41
• 5-42 (Canon of Polykleitos)
• 5-43
• 5-45
• 5-52
• 5-53
• 5-54
• 5-56
• 5-60
• 5-62
• 5-64
• 5-65
• 5-66
• 5-67

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You should be familiar enough with other images presented in the text and lectures, so as to be able to support explanations of attribution and physical, formal, iconographical, and contextual analysis.

VOCABULARY

• p. 110 - Elements of Architecture (know the Greek orders and their parts) 
• p. 117 - Standard Shapes of Greek Vessels
• black-figure, red-figure, white-ground
  
• treasury
  
• cella/naos (pronaos)
•  Archaic smile
•  sanctuary/temenos
•  contrapposto
•  caryatid
•  acropolis (akropolis)
•  idealization
•  tempera
•  elevation​
•  mosaic
•  terra cotta
•  tesserae
•  kore / kouros
•  barbarian
•  expressionism
•  entasis
•  foreshortening
•  Geometric
•  Orientalizing
•  Archaic
•  Severe
•  Classical
•  Hellenistic