• Geometric, ca. 900-700 BCE
• Orientalizing Art, ca. 725-650 BCE
• Archaic Art, ca. 650-480 BCE
• Early Classical Art, ca. 480-450 BCE
• High Classical Art, ca. 450-400 BCE
• Late Classical Art, ca. 400-325 BCE
• Hellenistic Art, ca. 325-30 BCE
900511473 | Dipylon Krater, Geometric, Dipylon Cemetery, Athens, Greece, 740 BCE, 3' 4.5" *funerary use | ![]() | 1 | |
900511474 | Herakles and Nessos, Geometric, Olympia, Greece, 750 - 730 BCE, Bronze, 4.5" *hero and centaur | ![]() | 2 | |
900511475 | Mantiklos Apollo, Orientalizing, Thebes, Greece, 700 - 680 BCE, Bronze, 8" *Apollo? | ![]() | 3 | |
900511478 | Lady of Auxerre; Orientalizing, Crete, Greece; ca. 650-625 BCE; limestone *Daedalic style (after legendary artist Daedalus) *Goddess or maiden (kore) | ![]() | 4 | |
900511476 | Corinthian Amphora; Orientalizing, Rhodes, Greece, ca. 625-600 BCE *black-figure technique with slip, Exekias. *red-figure technique, Andokides, Euphronius | ![]() | 5 | |
900511479 | Kouros; (near) Athens, Greece; Archaic, ca. 600 BCE; marble *Has same stance as many Egyptian statues...frontal with left foot advanced slightly, arms held at side of body, fists clenched (also a funerary statue, like Egyptians!) *Kouri are nude, unlike Egyptians, for all to see | ![]() | 6 | |
900511485 | Temple of Artemis; Corfu, Greece; Archaic, ca. 600-580 BCE *medusa | ![]() | 7 | |
900511480 | Calf bearer; Athens, Greece; Archaic, ca. 560 BCE; marble *Man's arms and calf's legs for an X to show bond *Archaic smile= always, and even in bad context | ![]() | 8 | |
900511484 | Temple of Hera I ("Basilica"); Paestum, Italy; Archaic, ca. 550 BCE *Doric temple design *achieved simple 2:1 ratio | ![]() | 9 | |
900511486 | Achilles and Ajax playing a dice game; by Exekias; Vulci, Italy; Archaic, ca. 540-530 BCE *Detail from an Athenian black-figure amphora *Amphora: a tall ancient Greek or Roman jar with two handles and a narrow neck. | ![]() | 10 | |
900511481 | Kroisos; Anavysos, Greece; Archaic, ca. 530 BCE; marble *Continues Egyptian stance, more naturalistic than Kourous (2), more rounded face, swelling cheeks, rounded hips, (no more v-shape) long hair is not as stiff | ![]() | 11 | |
900511482 | Peplos Kore; from the Acropolis, Athens, Greece; Archaic, ca. 530 BCE; marble *Softer treatment of the flesh...contemporary korai have hard, muscular bodies | ![]() | 12 | |
900511487 | Achilles and Ajax playing a dice game; by Andokides Painter; Orvieto, Italy; Archaic, ca. 525-520 BCE *Exekias | ![]() | 13 | |
900511483 | Kore in Ionian Dress; from the Acropolis, Athens, Greece; Archaic, ca. 52-510 BCE; marble | ![]() | 14 | |
900511490 | Dying warrior (from west pediment of the Temple of Aphaia); Aegina, Greece; ca. 490 BCE; Archaic *Still somewhat Archaic (Archaic smile [while being stabbed], torso rigidly frontal, looks directly out) | ![]() | 15 | |
900511491 | Dying warrior (from east pediment of the Temple of Aphaia); Aegina, Greece; ca. 480 BCE; Early Classical *More realistic with appropriate exppression | ![]() | 16 | |
900511496 | Kritios Boy; from the Acropolis, Athens, Greece; Early Classical, ca. 480 BCE *contrapposto *The head turns slighty...breaking unwritten rule of frontality (basically all statues before this) | ![]() | 17 | |
900511494 | Temple of Zeus; Olympia, Greece; Early Classicalca. 470-456 BCE; Doric *Architect was Libon of Elis *Site of the Olympic Games | ![]() | 18 | |
900511493 | Temple of Hera II; Paestum, Italy; Early Classical, ca. 460 BCE; Doric | ![]() | 19 | |
900511497 | Riace Warrior; from the sea off Riace, Italy; Early Classical, ca. 460-450 BCE; bronze *Embedded eyes, silver teeth and eye-lashes, and copper lips and nipples *contrapposto *Hollow-casting | ![]() | 20 | |
900511498 | Zeus; from the sea off Cape Artemision, Greece; Early Classical, ca. 460-450 BCE; bronze (Hellenistic) | ![]() | 21 | |
900511499 | Diskobolos (Discus Thrower); by Myron; Roman marble copy of a bronze original; Early Classical, ca. 450 BCE. | ![]() | 22 | |
900511500 | Doryphoros (Spear Bearer); by Polykleitos; Roman marble copy of bronze original; Early Classical, ca. 450 BCE *7 heads, canon | ![]() | 23 | |
900511502 | Parthenon (Temple of Athena Parthenos); Acropolis, Athens, Greece; high classical, ca. 447-438 BCE; Doric *Architects: Iktinos and Kallikrates *Sculptural Designer: Phidias *Doric, but contains some Ionic elements (some tall and slender Ionic columns, interior frieze) *Athena *peripteral temple | ![]() | 24 | |
900511503 | Athena Parthenos; (in the cella of the Parthenon); by Phidias; Acropolis, Athens, Greece; high classical, ca. 438 BCE; 38-feet-tall; gold and ivory *winged Nike | ![]() | 25 | |
900511507 | Temple of Athena Nike; Acropolis, Athens, Greece; high classical, ca. 427-424 BCE; *First completely Ionic temple in Acropolis | ![]() | 26 | |
900511506 | Erechtheion , Acropolis, Athens, Greece, high classical, ca. 421-405 BCE. (High Classical) *Carytids | ![]() | 27 | |
900511512 | Aphrodite of Knidos; by Praxiteles; Roman marble copy of original; Roman, Italy; Late Classical, ca. 350 *First nude greek women sculpture | ![]() | 28 | |
900511520 | Theater; by Polykleitos the Younger; Epidauros, Greece; Late Classical, ca. 350 BCE | ![]() | 29 | |
900511513 | Hermes and the infant Dionysus; by Praxiteles; Temple of Hera, Olympia, Greece; Late Classical, ca. 340 | ![]() | 30 | |
900511515 | Weary Herakles (Farnese Herakles); by Glykon of Athens; (inspired by Lysippos); Roman copy; Rome, Italy; Late Classical, Late Classical, ca. 320 BCE; marble | ![]() | 31 | |
900511516 | Head of Alexander the Great; Pella, Greece; Late Classical, 3rd century BCE | ![]() | 32 | |
900511519 | Battle of Issus; by Philoxenos of Eretria; Pompeii, Italy Late Classical, ca. 310 BCE *Alexander the Great | ![]() | 33 | |
900511532 | Demosthenes; by Polyeuktos; Roman copy of bronze original, Hellenistic, ca. 280 BCE *Aged Old Man | ![]() | 34 | |
900511525 | Gallic chieftain killing himself and wife; by Epigonos; Roman copy of bronze original (Hellenistic, ca. 230 BCE)—from the altar of Zeus | ![]() | 35 | |
900511526 | Dying Gaul; by Epigonos; Roman marble copy of bronze original, Hellenistic, ca. 230 BCE | ![]() | 36 | |
900511529 | Barberini Faun (Sleeping satyr); Rome, Italy Hellenistic, ca. 230-200 BCE • Restlessly sleeping, drunken satyr, very sexual | ![]() | 37 | |
900511527 | Nike of Samothrace; Samothrace, Greece; Hellenistic, ca. 190 BCE | ![]() | 38 | |
900511523 | Altar of Zeus; Pergamon, Turkey; Hellenistic, ca. 175 BCE | ![]() | 39 | |
900511524 | Athena battling Alkyoneos; Detail of the frieze from the Altar of Zeus; Pergamon, Turkey; Hellenistic, ca. 175 BCE | ![]() | 40 | |
900511522 | Stoa of Attalos II; Agora, Athens, Greece; Hellenistic, Hellenistic, ca. 150 BCE (late Classical) *Agora: a public open space used for assemblies and markets | ![]() | 41 | |
900511528 | Venus de Milo (Aphrodite); by Alexandros; Melos, Greece; Hellenistic, ca. 150-125 BCE | ![]() | 42 | |
900511531 | Old market woman; Hellenistic, ca. 150-100 BCE *Social realism | ![]() | 43 | |
900511530 | Seated boxer; Rome, Italy Hellenistic, ca. 100-50 BCE *No longer young | ![]() | 44 | |
900511533 | Laocoon and his Sons; by Athanadoros, Hagesandros, and Polydoros; Rome, Italy; Hellenistic, early 1st century CE | ![]() | 45 | |
900511534 | Head of Odysseus; by Athanadoros, Hagesandros, and Polydoros; Sperlonga, Italy; Hellenistic, ca. early 1st century CE | ![]() | 46 |