The document provides an overview of classical Greek art from 480-323 BCE, known as the Early Classical, High Classical, and Late Classical periods. It discusses important sculptures, architectural works, and artistic styles that developed during this time, including the Kritios Boy, works by Polykleitos and Lysippos, and major buildings on the Acropolis like the Parthenon and Erechtheion.

2. Chronological Overview

3. Chronological Overview

4. Remember the Persians? Darius and Xerxes Receiving Tribute, Apandana (Audience Hall), Persepolis, c. 500 BCE Xerxes Darius

9. Myron, Diskobolos (Discus Thrower), Roman copy of an Early Classical, 470-440 BCE

10. Eadweard Muybridge, Man Throwing Discus , Collotype from glass negative, 1883-1886

12. Different Roman copies (1 st -2 nd centuries CE) of Myron’s 5 th -century CE bronze original.

13. Warrior, Found in the sea off Riace, Italy, Early Classical, 460-450 BCE

14. Warrior (Detail), Found in the sea off Riace, Italy, Early Classical, 460-450 BCE

15. Warrior (Detail), Found in the sea off Riace, Italy, Early Classical, 460-450 BCE

16. The Athenian Acropolis Aerial View of Athens with the Acropolis High (Acro) + City (Polis) = High City

17. The Archaic Athenian Acropolis Dimitri Tsalikanis, Reconstruction of the Archaic Acropolis c. 600-500 BCE

18. Destroyed Pediment from the Old Temple of Athena, Acropolis, Athens, Archaic, 600-550 BCE

19. Athena from the pediment of the Old Temple to Athena, Archaic, c. 600-550 BCE

20. Pediment Sculpture from an unknown Athenian temple, found buried on the acropolis, Archaic, c. 600 BCE

21. Pericles and the Rebuilding of the Acropolis Kresilas. Pericles. Roman copy after bronze original of c.429 BCE. The Aegean

22. Panathenaic Procession

23. The Classical Acropolis Parthenon Picture Gallery Propylaia Statue of Athena Promachos Erechtheion Temple of Athena Nike Panathenaic Procession

24. The Classical Acropolis Parthenon Picture Gallery Propylaia Statue of Athena Promachos Erechtheion Temple of Athena Nike Panathenaic Procession

26. *Propylaion: Monumental entrance to a sacred space or citadel Mnesikles. Propylaia (view from the east and northeast). Acropolis, Athens. 437-432 BCE.

27. Mnesikles. Propylaia (view from the east and northeast). Acropolis, Athens. 437-432 BCE.

28. The Classical Acropolis Parthenon Picture Gallery Propylaia Statue of Athena Promachos Erechtheion Temple of Athena Nike Panathenaic Procession

29. Aerial view of the Acropolis, Athens. The Erechtheion

31. Porch of the Maidens, Erechtheion (view from the southeast), Acropolis, Athens. 421-406 BCE. Caryatid

32. Caryatid from the south porch of the Erechtheion. High Classical, 421-406 BCE. “ Peplos” Kore , from the Acropolis, Athens. Archaic c.530 BCE.

33. Iktinos and Kallikrates. The Parthenon (seen from northwest). Acropolis, Athens, 447-438 BCE.

34. Doric Ionic Parthenon Cross-Section of the Parthenon

35. Plan of the Parthenon and its sculptural program.

36. Diagram of the Doric Order. Metope

37. Lapith and Centaur Metope, Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, High Classical, 450-430 BCE

38. Lapith and Centaur Metope, Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, High Classical, 450-430 BCE

39. “ Old Men” Frieze, Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, High Classical, 450-430 BCE Riders Frieze, Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, High Classical, 450-430 BCE

40. Birth of Athena, East Pediment, Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, High Classical, 450-430 BCE Contest between Athena and Poseidon, West Pediment, Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, High Classical, 450-430 BCE

41. The Proportions of Phidias

42. = (phi) = 1 = .6180

44. Phidias, Kallikrates, and Iktinos, Frontal View of the Parthenon, Acropolis Athens, 447-432 BCE

45. Phidias, Kallikrates, and Iktinos, Frontal View of the Parthenon, Acropolis Athens, 447-432 BCE

46. Floor Plan of Parthenon, Interior of the Parthenon is a Golden Rectangle. 1 .618

47. Diagram of Parthenon with exaggerated curves

48. Phidian Proportions and the Human Form

49. Athena, Attributed to Phidias, High Classical, c. 5 th century CE

50. Athena, Attributed to Phidias, High Classical, c. 5 th century CE

51. Cult Statue of Athena (Reconstruction), Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, c. 5 th Century CE

52. a b Cult Statue of Athena (Reconstruction), Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, c. 5 th Century CE

53. The Canon of Polykleitos Polykleitos, Doryphoros (Spear Bearer), Roman Copy from Greek Original, High Classical c. 5 th Century CE

54. “ but beauty, he thinks, does not reside in the proper proportion of the elements but in the proper proportion of the parts, such as for example that of finger to finger and all these to the palm and base of hand, of those to the forearm, of the forearm to the upper arm and of everything to everything else, just as described in the Canon of Polykleitos. For having taught us in that work all the proportions of the body, Polykleitos supported his treatise with a work of art, making a statue according to the tenets of the treatise and calling it, like the treatise itself, the Canon. So then, all philosophers and doctors accept that beauty resides in the due proportion of the parts of the body.”

58. Contrapposto Pythagorean Table of Opposites Finite Infinite Odd Even One Many Right Left Rest Motion Straight Crooked Light Darkness Good Evil Square Oblong

59. The Canon of Lysippos Lysippos, Apoxyomenos (The Scraper), Roman Copy of a Greek Original, Late Classical, 4 th century CE

60. Doryphoros Apoxyomenos