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Ancient Greece• Unknown period of history of Greece from end of
Mycenaean civilization to Classical civilization-approximately 1100-700 BCE
• Steady, unbroken progression and evolution in art from about 700 BCE to about 400 CE
• Independent city-states with a different form of government in each-kings, nobles, tyrants, democracy, etc.
• Interest in humanity “Man is the measure of all things”-Protagoras, 5th century BCE
• Progression styles attempt to reach the “ideal”
Exekias, Amphora with Ajax and Achilles Playing a Game, ca. 540 BCE, Archaic
• Black figure painting• Amphora
Euthymides, Amphora with Three
Revelers, 510 BCE,Archaic
• Red Figure painting• Hubris: “Euthymides
made me as never Euphronios could do”
Polykleitos, Spearbearer or
Doryphoros,450-440 BCE,
Classical
• Contrapposto• Antithesis• Chiastic • Cannon
Alexander the Great Confronts Darius III at the Battle of Issos, Moasiac, 1st century CE
• Mosaic
• Tesserae