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Ancient Greek Art and the Ideal Body

By Lydia_Trethewey
  • Period: 900 BCE to 600 BCE

    Geometric Art

    • city-states of Classical Greece take shape
    • Greeks begin trading with neighbours
    • human figures return to Greek art (bronze statuettes and silhouettes on Geometric vases)
  • Period: 850 BCE to 800 BCE

    Homer

  • 800 BCE

    Hesiod

  • Period: 800 BCE to 700 BCE

    Etruscan civilisation begins

  • 776 BCE

    Olympic Games founded

  • 733 BCE

    Greek colony founded at Syracuse (Sicily)

  • Period: 700 BCE to 600 BCE

    Orientalising Phase

  • 680 BCE

    Mantiklos Apollo

    Mantiklos Apollo
    "Mantiklos Apollo", statuette of youth dedicated by Mantiklos to Apollo
    Thebes, Greece
    ca 700-680 BCE
    Bronze
    20cm high
  • 654 BCE

    Greek colony founded in S. Russia

  • 650 BCE

    Lady of Auxerre

    Lady of Auxerre
    "Lady of Auxerre" ca 650-625 BCE
    Limestone
    Kore (maiden) figure in Daedalic style
  • 612 BCE

    Sappho born

  • 600 BCE

    Kouros

    Kouros
    "Kouros" ca600 BCE
    Marble
    Early kouroi (youth) are nude and utilise Egyptian pose.
  • 600 BCE

    Kouroi

    First life-sized stone statues start appearing c 600 BCE
  • Period: 600 BCE to 400 BCE

    Archaic Art

  • 594 BCE

    Solon's reforms at Athens

  • 570 BCE

    "Kouros" from Tenea

    "Kouros" from Tenea
    "Kouros" from Tenea, c. 570 BCE. Marble, about 1.52m high.
  • 546 BCE

    Persian conquest of Asia Minor

  • 530 BCE

    Peplos Kore

    Peplos Kore
    "Peplos Kore" ca 530 BCE
    from the Acropolis, Athens, Greece
    Marble In Archaic statuary, female figures are always clothed.
  • 530 BCE

    Red-figure vase painting

    Red-figure vase painting invented by Andokides Painter c 530 BCE
  • 509 BCE

    First Roman republic

  • 500 BCE

    Timarete

    Ancient Greek painter. Daughter of Milcon
    c 5th century BCE
  • 495 BCE

    Death pf Pythagoras

  • 490 BCE

    Persians repulsed by Greeks at Marathon

  • 480 BCE

    Persians defeated at Thermopylae and Salamis

  • 480 BCE

    Kritios Boy

    Kritios Boy
    "Kritios Boy", c 480 BCE, marble, 86cm high
  • 480 BCE

    Persian sack of Athenian Acropolis

  • Period: 480 BCE to 450 BCE

    Early Classical period

    • introduction of contrapposto
  • 450 BCE

    Riace Warrior

    Riace Warrior
    Riace Warrior, 460 - 450 BCE, bronze
  • 450 BCE

    "Diskobolos", Myron

    "Diskobolos", Myron
    "Diskobolos" (Discus Thrower), Myron
    Roman marble copy of bronze original
    ca. 450 BCE
  • Period: 450 BCE to 400 BCE

    High Classical period

    Polykleitos develops canon of proportions
  • 447 BCE

    Acropolis rebuilt

  • Period: 447 BCE to 438 BCE

    Parthenon

  • Period: 431 BCE to 404 BCE

    Peloponnesian war

  • Period: 400 BCE to 323 BCE

    Late Classical Art

  • 399 BCE

    Death of Socrates

  • 396 BCE

    Etruscan city of Veii destroyed by Rome

  • 347 BCE

    Death of Plato

  • 340 BCE

    Hermes and Dionysius

    Hermes and Dionysius
    "Hermes and Dionysius" c340 BCE, marble, 2.13m high
  • 340 BCE

    "Aphrodite of Knidos", Praxiteles

    "Aphrodite of Knidos", Praxiteles
    "Aphrodite of Knidos", Praxiteles
    Roman marble copy of original
    ca 350 - 340 BCE First nude statue of a goddess
  • Period: 323 BCE to 330 BCE

    Hellenistic Art

  • 322 BCE

    Death of Aristotle

  • 220 BCE

    Anaxandra

    Ancient Greek artist and painted.
    Daughter of Nealkes