The Francois Vase

• Named after discoverer, Alexander Francois

• Discovered in Etruscan tomb in 1844

Amphora Vase

•Circa 570/560 BCE•Black on yellow painting technique, used in the Classical period•Vase style: amphora. Used for food storage

Four friezes from bottom to top depicting scenes from Greek mythology, such as the Calydonian Boar Hunt on the lower freize. The Calydonian Boar was a mythological monster.

Shows the dominance of violence in Greek society. All four friezes tell the story of several gory and violent scenes in mythology.

Niobid Painter:Apollo and

Artemis Slaying

Children of Niobid

In mythology:Niobe was the wife of King Amphion, ruler of Thebes. A woman with many children, Niobe boasted to Leo about all of her children, since Leo’s only children were Apollo and Artemis. The two children avenged their mother’s grief and killed all of Niobe’s children.

•Yellow on black vase, reverse of Francois vase•Circa 460 BCE•Shows evolution of quality of vases—at this point vases were glossed by letting air into the kiln.•Krater vase, used for mixing wine and water

Krater Vase

Characteristics of vase:

Shows the lack of morals and the overwhelming sense of competition during this era. The Greeks allowed destructive feelings, such as jealousy, to take over their lives.

Temple of Apollo

• Built circa 450-400 BCE

• Seven of the original 36 columns are still standing

• Temple was destroyed by earthquakes

• Built in the Greek city of Corinth

• Doric capital

• Like most doric columns they have no base and are wide and heavy

• Shaft is monolithic, meaning it is one piece of stone instead of having several different parts

• Made of porous stone and very soft limestone, causing the building to decay over time

Exemplification of the concept of symmetry exercised in the structure of Greek buildings. All columns are evenly spaced and equal in size.

Doric capital

Monolithic shaftNo base