101 Acropolis

Classic, Golden Age of Perikles, 480-350 BCE (450 BCE)
Late Hellenism 350-100 BCE (350-100 BCE)
Roman Empire 100BCE-315 CE
Roman Empire- 200 B.C.- 315 C.E.
Early Christian/Byzantine 315-750 C.E (some sources say the Byzantine style survived all the way to 1450)
Romanesque 800-1150 C.E.
Gothic 1150-1350 C.E.

The Acropolis

Panathanaic Celebration
Panathanaic Procession

Theater of Dionysos (South Slope)
Festival of Dionysos is in March
14,000-17,000 attend

comedy
tragedy
Latin tragoedia,
from Greek tragOidia,
from tragos - goat
(akin to Greek trOgein to gnaw) + aeidein to sing -- ODE

Mnesikles, Propylea c437BCE
Kallikrates, Nike Temple c427BCE

	Fig. 495 Temple of Athena Nike, 427-424 BCE Acropolis, Athens,

	Parapet Left: Fig. 605 Nike, Marble n/a Height 42 in. c. 410-407 BCE From the balustrade of the Temple of Athena Nike. Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece

	Mnesikles, Propylaia c437BCE propylon: gateway front approach also called the Pinakotheke museum: home of the muses

Athena Promachos

Iktinos and Kallikrates The Parthenon c450 BCE Athens, Greece
17:8 ratio
kalos
symmetria
Pythagorean ratios 6:8, 9:12

Doric Order

Fig. 493
Corner of the First Temple of Hera, c. 550 BCE
Located in Paestum, Italy,
Period/Style name is: Classic Greek

entasis

Fig 412 Three Goddesses? (Hestia, Dione, and Aphrodite?) (Possibly the Three Fates) (The Elgin Marbles)
from the East pediment of the east pediment of the Parthenon
sculptor: Phidias ? c438-432 BCE tallest figure 4'5"

Apollo's Lead Horse? (Selene's Horse?) (The Elgin Marbles)
from the East pediment of the east pediment of the Parthenon by Phidias ?
c438-432 BCE approximately 2' tall


	Pheidias Panathenaic Frieze

Detail of the Panathenaic Procession
(The Elgin Marbles)
from the North frieze of the Parthenon Phidias?
c438-432 BCE approximately 3' 6" tall

Pheidias Panathenaic Frieze

contextualism
A methodological approach in art history which focuses on the cultural back ground of an art object. Unlike modern connoisseurship, contexualism utilizes the literature, history, economics, and social developments (among others) of a period, as well as the object itself, to explain the meaning of an artwork.

Context can also be the physical environment it is placed in.

These sculptures are in situ.

Phidias? Detail of the Panathenaic Procession (The Elgin Marbles)
from the north frieze of the Parthenon
c438-432 BCE approximately 3' 6" tall
(now in the British Museum) Classic Greek

Fig. 402 Maidens and Stewards, Marble Height approx. 43 in. 447 – 438 BCE
Fragment of the Panathenaic Procession from the east frieze of the Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens.
(now in the Louvre) Classic, Greek