Geometric Period 1050-700 BCE (700 BCE)
Orientalizing Period 700-600 BCE (600 BCE)
Archaic Period 600-480 BCE (600 BCE)
Classic, Golden Age of Perikles, 480-350 BCE (450 BCE)
Late Hellenism 350-100 BCE (350-100 BCE)

Plato
Pronunciation: 'plA-(")tO
circa 428-348 (or 347) B.C. Greek philosopher; disciple of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle; with them laid philosophical foundations of Western culture

Plato's ideas on art.
Plato's Republic
mimesis - imitation.  Things that appear in nature are reflections of universal essences, the True, the Good, and the Beautiful.
Art is a shadow.

Greek, Archaic, Kouros c600 BCE 6' 4" marble

Polykleitos, Doryphoros c450BCE Classic Greek

The Classical World Evolution     Charles Darwin "theory of evolution" Ernst H. Gombrich "schema and correction" form iconography context

Polykleitos, Doryphoros c450BCE Classic Greek

Kouros, c600 BCE 6' 4" marble Archaic Greek

Polykleitos, Spear Bearer (Doryphoros) Roman copies after the Greek originals of Greek Original was made c.450-440 BCE, Classic Greek Roman Copies were made 100 BCE-250 CE   kalos contrapposto kanon

can·on
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English, from Late Latin, from Latin, ruler, rule, model, standard, from Greek kanOn
Date: before 12th century
4 a : an accepted principle or rule b: a criterion or standard of judgment c : a body of principles, rules, standards, or norms
1 a : a regulation or dogma decreed by a church council b : a provision of canon law
2 [Middle English, prob. from Old French, from Late Latin, from Latin, model] : the most solemn and unvarying part of the Mass including the consecration of the bread and wine
3 [Middle English, from Late Latin, from Latin, standard] a : an authoritative list of books accepted as Holy Scripture b : the authentic works of a writer c: a sanctioned or accepted group or body of related works <the canon of great literature>
5 [Late Greek kanOn, from Greek, model] : a contrapuntal musical composition in two or more voice parts in which the melody is imitated exactly and completely by the successive voices though not always at the same pitch
synonym see LAW

 

Young Warriors also called the Riace Bronzes c.460-450 BCE  Bronze with bone and glass eyes, silver teeth,  and copper lips and nipples,  height 6'8" Greek, Classic,

cire perdue (lost wax process)

Young Warriors also called the Riace Bronzes c.460-450 BCE Greek, Classic,

Kouros, c600 BCE 6' 4" marble Archaic Greek

	Kritios, Kritian Boy also called the Ephebe of Kritios c480BCE marble, height 46" Greek, Classic, contrapposto
Kritios, Kritian Boy also called the Ephebe of Kritios c480BCE marble, height 46" Greek, Classic,	Greek, Classic,  "Blond Boy's Head" c480BCE

Akkadian c2300	Kouros c600 BCE
Kouros c600 BCE