ARHI4010/6010:
Classical and Hellenistic Greek Art
Dr. Frances Van Keuren,
University of Georgia
Works Not Illustrated in Textbooks
and Ancient Textual Commentary

STUDY GUIDE #1

fvankeur@aol.com


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Original sculptures have an "O" and copies have a "C" next to their name.
The material named within parentheses is that of the original sculpture.
Click on image for larger view.


High Classical Period, 450-400 B.C. :
Parthenon Period/Classical Moment, 450-430 B.C.

C Polykleitos’ Spear Bearer, Doryphoros (bronze), classical moment

Photograph from Beazley Archive: Sculpture: Collection of Casts

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C Polykleitos' Fillet Binder, "Diadoumenos" (bronze), classical moment. (NOTE: Larger image not available for image of head.)

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C Head of Polykleitos' Heracles (bronze), from Rome, classical moment.

Photograph from Beazley Archive: Sculpture: Collection of Casts (there identified as Hermes)

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C Polykleitos' (?) Athlete or Hermes (bronze), to be restored with discus and staff or phiale and caduceus, classical moment.

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C Pheidias' Athena Lemnia, located on Athenian Acropolis (bronze), classical moment.

Second photograph from Beazley Archive: Sculpture: Collection of Casts

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C Pheidias' Athena Parthenos, cult statue in Parthenon (gold & ivory), classical moment; ARHI 3000 web site.

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C Amazonomachy = Battle of Greeks and Amazons, from exterior of shield of Pheidias' Athena Parthenos, classical moment.

Second photograph from Beazley Archive: Sculpture: Collection of Casts


C Gigantomachy = Battle of Gods and Giants, from interior of shield of Pheidias' Athena Parthenos, classical moment.

ROM reconstruction of the Gigantomachy, drawing by Sylvia Hahn, from Neda Leipen, Athena Parthenos: a reconstruction, Royal Ontario Museum, 1971, fig. 86.

Attic red-figure krater depicting figures from the Gigantomachy.
Attic red-figure amphora depicting figures from the Gigantomachy.
C Birth of Pandora from front of base of Pheidias' Athena Parthenos, classical moment.

Photograph of to-scale replica of the Parthenon by Alan LeQuire in Nashville, TN.
C Pheidias' Zeus, cult statue in Temple of Zeus at Olympia (gold & ivory), classical moment.

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(NOTE: No larger images for coins)
Sphinx With Youth as Victim; Roman copy from detail on throne of Pheidias' Zeus at Olympia (reconstructed from fragments) Vienna, Ephesus Museum.

Credits: Barbara McManus, 1992

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C Kresilas’ Pericles, from Athenian Acropolis (bronze), classical moment

Democratic Art: Portraits: Perikles

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go to Early Classical Period, 480-450 B.C.
this page Parthenon Period, 450-430 B.C.
go to Rich Style, 430-400 B.C.
go to Late Classical Period, 400-330 B.C.
go to Early Hellenistic Period, 330-250 B.C.
go to Middle Hellenistic Period, 250-160 B.C.
go to Late Hellenistic Period, 160-30 B.C.
go to The Greek Temple Plan &
                 The Three Architectural Orders
go to Temples & Freizes - All Periods
go to Works in Hellenistic Styles