Ancient Greek art

Greek art is the art of the Greeks. In the Hellenistic period it merges with the Roman art and ends in Byzantine art.

Periods

Greek art is divided into the following styles:

  • Proto Geometric style about 1025/00-900 BC
  • Early Geometric style ca 900-825 BC
  • Geometric means style ca 825-750 BC
  • Late Geometric style ca 750-675 BC
  • Früharchaischer style 700-620 BC
  • Hocharchaischer style 620-560 BC
  • Late Archaic style 560-500 BC
  • Strenger style 500-450 BC
  • High- Classic 450-430/20 BC
  • Rich style 420-380 BC
  • Late Classical 380-325 BC
  • Previously Hellenism 325-230 BC
  • Later Hellenism 150 - 30 BC

In classical archeology - as practiced mainly in Anglo-Saxon, but also other countries have long - anticipated for decades, increasingly, in Germany the Cretan -Mycenaean art to Greek art. Ever since, it is clear that the Linear B script documents written in Greek, and the connections from the Mycenaean to the geometric time is always evident (eg smooth transition from submykenischer to Protogeometric ceramic), the Mycenaean art, you can not well received by the later stages cut. A separation is not justified in increasing measure.

The phases of the Mycenaean civilization:

  • Frühmykenisch = Mycenaean I: ca 1600-1525/00 BC
  • Mittelmykenisch = Mycenaean II: ca 1525/00-1400 BC
  • Spätmykenisch = Mycenaean III: ca 1400-1050 BC is divided into Mycenaean III A: ca 1400-1340/15 BC
  • Mycenaean III B: ca 1340/15-1190 BC
  • Mycenaean III C: ca 1190-1050 BC

In many regions of Greece, still followed by a Submykenischer ceramic style, which then goes into the early Protogeometric style.

Architecture

Main article: Greek Architecture

Religion was very important in ancient Greece, therefore, were temples with the earliest monumental structures. The oldest known finds of post- Mycenaean times, which have all the character of sanctuaries, date from the 10th century BC; Temples were later built entirely in the geometric time first partially of wood of stone. From the 7th century BC (eg the Heraion of Samos) larger temples were created. A similar development can be traced in monumental sculpture. In post- Mycenaean statues were first made ​​, and the like from various materials such as bronze, ivory, stone and wood. Larger statues existed at that time probably made ​​of wood and other easily perishable materials. From the second half of the 7th century BC, they were made of stone (marble ).

Painting

First paintings of ancient Greece appeared in 2000 BC in Crete on as frescoes.

The painting is divided into the "big" and "small". Under the large painting fall wall and panel paintings large format. Their testimonies were completely lost over the centuries. A certain idea of style and quality offer finds from Etruscan tombs of the classical period, which clearly oriented towards the Greek large painting. She took content often relating to mythological. Great emphasis was placed on the representation of people and their gear down and aspects of perspective have been developed.

Nevertheless, the painting remained far in the classical period descriptions of images of the great painting offers Pausanias in his travelogue Athens, Delphi and Olympia.

The large painting was assimilated in their representative function for the state of the sculpture at least, since it made it possible to represent all the events and did not have to be limited to the representation of a person or pose. Gods were depicted human.

The small painting refers to the mass- handed down to us pictures on the Greek ceramics. The quality-conscious Attic pottery painting often referred to the progress of the great painting and so can also begin to understand that of the large painting based on their development. So you can see the attempts to transfer the development of perspective and an appropriate size relations on the small bowls and vase paintings, which sometimes led to helpless comic solutions. Nevertheless, the fine, detailed images appear on pottery of classical Attic production for our eyes as high quality art form that was evaluated in the art historical research for a long time so high that it was their idols of gold and silver equal, even superior in their quality.

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